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True Grit Hair

Hair salon · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

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True Grit Hair

Hair salon · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#19of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health9.6/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

True Grit Hair is a centrally located salon in Christchurch Central City offering cutting, colour and styling from a team of creative professional stylists. The salon highlights training and development, with award-winning apprentices and New Generation stylists. It stocks professional products such as Kérastase and presents a salon atmosphere noted for friendly service and attentive consultations.

True Grit Hair is a Christchurch Central City salon offering cutting, colouring and styling services from a team of professional stylists. The salon presents itself as a hub for creative hair work and is positioned in the heart of Christchurch, serving local clients seeking up-to-date trends and technical services.

Services include haircuts, colour work and specialised styling, with an emphasis on training and skill development. The salon notes successes among apprentices and New Generation stylists, and lists professional product lines such as Kérastase through its shop. The website and promotional material reference team developments and methods for working with textured and curly hair.

Customer feedback highlights attentive consultations, skilled colour results and a friendly, welcoming atmosphere. Reviews commonly mention stylists who listen to client needs, effective trainee work under supervision, satisfying blow-dries and colour that looks natural or vibrant depending on the client's preference. Clients describe positive interactions and stylists who balance technical skill with service-focused care.

Locally, True Grit Hair is distinguished by its central Christchurch location, a visible emphasis on training and product retail, and a team that includes award-recognised trainees. Customers can expect a salon that combines professional product offerings with a culture of learning and hands-on service, suited to those seeking contemporary styling and colour work in the central city.

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Your Google listing

True Grit Hair shows a very high health score for its Google Business Listing, indicating well-optimised basic information. The top achievement is a claimed listing with full control, alongside an open-for-business status and visible website and phone details. The main opportunity focuses on increasing photo count to reach the top 10% for greater local visibility.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top two opportunities

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    Category fitYour categories cover this market better than the middle of the field, so you appear in most of the searches your competitors appear in.
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    Photos on the listingYou carry more photos than most of this market, which gives a customer a real look at the work before they ring.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 5 of them.
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4.7 ★★★★★ (215)
Hair salon · Christchurch Centre1
Open 5 days · late Tue and Thu ✓
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From the business

Christchurch’s multi-award-winning True Grit is one of New Zealand’s leading hair salons and is at the forefront of the latest in hair innovations, trends and styling. For our talented team of creative, professional stylists’ passion is their craft, their reward is an ecstatic client and their mission is 110% client satisfaction. We always have huge successes with our apprentices, and New Generation Stylists winning awards left right and centre. Our salon even won HITO’s Training Salon of the Year in 2015 and 2016. We are also proud to announce that we are winners in Kitomba Business Awards 2016 in categories for Excellence in Marketing, Best Salon Design and Grand Salon Award.

Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

True Grit Hair shows solid overall health in Google reviews with a 6.6/10 score and a strong foundational reputation. The top achievement is an outstanding total review count, placing the business in the top 10% locally, which supports social proof. Opportunities focus on improving star rating, response rate, and rating confidence to push toward higher performance.

Strengths

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    Review countYou hold one of the deepest review banks in this market - social proof that does its own selling.

Top three opportunities

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    Star ratingYour rating sits below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
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    Response rateYou reply to some of your reviews but not most, so a customer scrolling your page finds long stretches where nobody answered.
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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit ahead of half the field here, so a customer has enough to go on and no reason to hesitate.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
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4.7★★★★★215 reviews ✓
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Tina P.★★★★★ · 3 years ago

Always satisfied with my experience at True Grit, Libby your a star 🌟

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Thank you Tina, that means a lot! 🧡🧡

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laura B.★★★★★ · 3 years ago

Response from the owner

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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

True Grit Hair shows below-average overall health for Google Maps search with a 4.2/10. This indicates limited visibility but some presence across city-wide and borough searches. The top opportunities focus on improving aggregate Maps visibility and strengthening the borough listing to push toward the local midpoint.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
4.2Room to grow
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1Top three for "unisex hairdresser" in 1 suburb, seen in 7
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GM Hair Design4.5 ★ (75) · Hair salon
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True Grit Hair24.7 ★ (215) · Hair salon
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Vivo Hair Salon Cashel Square4.3 ★ (50) · Hair salon
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GOOD Hair & Co4.8 ★ (117) · Hair salon
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #287 for map positions
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Where customers find you

True Grit Hair shows a healthy overall health score for citations and social presence with room to grow. The strongest findings are outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles and an active Fresha listing, which underpin local visibility and trust. Opportunities include expanding Yellow and NoSecretSalon profiles and adding a LinkedIn presence to humanise the brand.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Fresha ProfileWe can see your Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/true-grit-hair-manchester-street-christchurch-MxEwQ1) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
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    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
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    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
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InstagramtruegritnzTrue Grit Hair | Instagram✓
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TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #52 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    People following your pageYours is one of the largest local followings in this market.
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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    Recommendations on your pageYour recommendation count is one of the deeper collections in this market, and enough of it is written by other people that the page does some of the arguing for you.

Top opportunity

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    What your page says about youThere is more in your intro than in half the pages here, so a visitor has a real sense of the business before they reach the photos.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 4 of them.
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4.8K followers ✓
True Grit/Luxury Hair Salon/Christchurch - Personalised Precision Styling - Luxury Environment - Eclectic Skilled Team - Sustainable Salon1
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★ 225 reviews · recommended ✓
🌐 truegrit.co.nz✓
☎ +64 3-377 7889
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your website

True Grit Hair shows a very high on-page SEO health, with a score of 8.7 out of 10. The most notable findings are a perfect meta description length and a valid favicon, plus a fast page load under 3 seconds. Opportunities include fixing title tag length, removing mixed content, and reducing render-blocking resources.

Strengths

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    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than almost any business in this market - a spread built over years that a competitor cannot buy their way into.
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    The shape of your link profileYour links come from about as wide a range of sites as anything in this market, and the mix of link types looks entirely natural.
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    Meta descriptionYour search summary sits in the length that reads in full on most screens, which is as far as length alone can take it - a narrow phone still cuts the tail off a line this size.

Top three opportunities

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    Page titleThe headline on your home page is either a single word or long enough that a search result cuts it off part way through.
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    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
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    On-page scoreMost checks on your home page pass, so someone clicking through from a search gets a page that opens quickly and says what it is.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

True Grit Hair shows a very high health score for website traffic at 9.3/10, indicating strong performance relative to peers. The business benefits from excellent organic traffic value, top local organic traffic, and strong local keyword visibility. Opportunities focus on initiating targeted paid campaigns to translate traffic into paid conversions and broaden paid keyword coverage.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
  • 3
    Search terms you advertise onYou are not covering any search terms with ads, which for most local businesses here is normal.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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www.fresha.comBest Hair Salons near me in Christchurch
truegrit.co.nzTrue Grit - Christchurch

Award winning hair dressers and hair stylists in Christchurch NZ. Centrally located hair salon in Chch CBD. Stockists of L'Oreal and Kerastase.

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About 3,832 visits a month from search, across 1,026 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your hours against demand

True Grit Hair's opening hours largely serve peak weekend and midweek lunch demand but miss several strong weekday peaks. The salon is open for high-demand Saturday midday hours and Tuesday late-morning to lunchtime, aligning well with customer searches. However, several Monday lunchtime hours and Sunday mid-afternoon show high demand while the salon is closed - practical hour shifts could capture more bookings without increasing low-demand coverage.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
5.0Room to grow
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True Grit Hair
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am-8pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday10am-8pm
Friday9am-5pm
Saturday9am-3pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Monday · Christchurch Centre
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Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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01Google listing2 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#19of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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