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VM Photography

Name: VM Photography
Address: 8 Wilding St, St Martins, christchurch, 8022, NZ
Telephone: +64212711979
Rating: 3.6

Photography service · St Martins, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 194 Christchurch photography businesses.

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Checked13 October 2026

Your marketChristchurch photography · 194 businesses

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VM Photography

Photography service · St Martins, Christchurch

Where you stand#172of 194 photography businesses

Overall health1.1/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours9.8

Where we can help

03Map positions5.2 02Reviews3.6 04Listings and social2.8 05Facebook page2.5 01Google listing1.1 07Google search and traffic0.0 06Your website-

How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

VM Photography is a Christchurch-based photographer operating from the Saint Martins suburb. The studio provides professional photography services for local clients across Christchurch. VM Photography focuses on delivering tailored photo sessions and handling image capture and editing, serving individuals and small businesses seeking local photographic work.

VM Photography is a photography business based in the Saint Martins suburb of Christchurch. The practice provides photography services to clients in Christchurch and the surrounding area.

The studio offers photography work that covers image capture and related photographic services. VM Photography presents itself as a local provider of photography, serving clients who need organised sessions and finished images for personal or business use.

There is no review snapshot available to summarise customer feedback for VM Photography in the provided source material. As a result, specific themes from client reviews are not listed here.

As a local Saint Martins photographer, VM Photography is positioned to serve Christchurch clients with photographic services. The location in Saint Martins and the focus on photography are the primary distinguishing features noted in the available information.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

VM Photography shows low overall health on Google Business Listing with a 1.7 out of 10, indicating room for major improvements. Strengths include accurate contact details and a visible main image, plus an open-for-business status. Key opportunities focus on claiming the listing, adding a website link, a fuller description, more photos, and a logo to improve visibility and credibility.

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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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.
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PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Top three opportunities

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ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
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WebsiteYour listing has no website link, so a customer who wants to check your prices or your work before ringing has nowhere to go from Google.
3
Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.

11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.

Room to grow

What customers see Where you rank

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Photography service · St Martins

Open 7 days ✓

DirectionsCall No website ✓2

OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout

From the business

No description yet3

Google listingChristchurch photography · 194 businesses

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

VM Photography shows a low overall health in Google reviews, with room to improve in ratings, review count and engagement. The most important findings are a weak average rating confidence and an absent star rating, plus minimal review volume and no responses from the owner. Addressing these areas would help build trust with local clients.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

1
Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
2
Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
3
Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.

4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.

Room to grow

What customers see Where you rank

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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout

–★★★★★0 reviews

No reviews yetBe the first to review1

Google reviewsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses

You are #125 for your Google reviews

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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

VM Photography has an average health score of 5.4 out of 10 for Maps Search Performance, indicating moderate visibility in Google Maps results. The business ranks well for core local terms in St Martins, with top positions for a photography studio and portrait studio in St Martins, and solid positions for photographer and photography service in St Martins. The strongest local strength is in the suburb, while aggregate scores show room for improvement.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top two opportunities

1
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.
2
Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than nearly every business in your suburb, so a customer searching nearby sees you before most of your competition.

2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.

Room to grow

What customers see Where you rank

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photographer

1Top three for "photographer" in 1 suburb, seen in 1

Susannah Blatchford Photography5.0 ★ (32) · Photography service

VM Photography20.0 ★ (0) · Photography service

Pete Prue Photography5.0 ★ (114) · Photography service

Liv van Leeuwen Photography5.0 ★ (24) · Photography service

Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses

You are #93 for map positions

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Where customers find you

VM Photography shows a low overall health score across social and local directories, at 1.5 out of 10, indicating weak social presence and discoverability. The strongest current asset is a very high-trust Facebook profile, which provides a stable base for future engagement. Key opportunities focus on adding Instagram and TikTok, improving Fresha and Yellow Directory visibility, and establishing a LinkedIn Company Page.

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.

Top three opportunities

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Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
2
Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
3
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.

16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.

Room to grow

What customers see Where you rank

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FacebookValMoirPhotographyVM Photography | Facebook✓

InstagramNo account found1

TiktokNo account found2

YellowNo listing found3

NeighbourlyNo listing found

Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses

You are #140 for listings and social

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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.
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A cover photoYour page opens with a cover photo rather than a blank banner, so the first impression a visitor gets is your own work.

Top three opportunities

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Where your page link pointsNothing in your page details points at a website, so a visitor who has read your posts and wants prices, hours or a booking form has nowhere to go next but back to search - where your competitors are waiting.
2
People following your pageFewer people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post reaches people who already know you rather than anyone still deciding.
3
A phone numberNo phone number is published on your Facebook page, so someone who found you there and wants to ring has to go hunting elsewhere or send a message and wait.

7 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.

Room to grow

What customers see Where you rank

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facebook

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179 followers 2

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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses

You are #145 for your Facebook page

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06Your websiteMarketbase business report

Your website

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

1
Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
2
Domain UniquenessWe could not find a domain registered to your business, which means there is no address of your own for a customer to go to and nothing for your Google listing to link to.
3
Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.

3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.

Room to grow

What customers see Where you rank

9:41

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Google Mapsgoogle.com › mapsVM Photography - St Martins, Christchurch

Your websiteNo website of your own1

Your websiteChristchurch photography · 194 businesses

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07Google search and trafficMarketbase business report

How people find you on Google

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here.

0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.

Room to grow

What customers see Where you rank

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No ads from you on any search

VM PhotographyNot in these results

Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses

You are #87 for Google search and traffic

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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

VM Photography's opening hours mostly match Christchurch demand: 55 peak hours open versus 25 missed high-demand hours. Strong alignment occurs weekday mid-day slots-Monday 11am-2pm and Wednesday 12pm-when searches are high. Missed opportunities include weekday evenings-Tuesday and Wednesday 6pm-9pm-when the studio is closed during popular search windows. A few low-demand open hours (Friday and Saturday afternoons, Tuesday morning and afternoon) may be trimmed.

Strengths

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Hours aligned with demandNo business here matches the demand around it more closely than you do - you are open when people are looking and shut when they are not.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here. Your hours already line up with when people are looking.

1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.

Strong

What customers see Where you rank

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VM Photography

OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout

Hours ✓

Monday9am-6pm

Tuesday9am-6pm

Wednesday9am-6pm

Thursday9am-6pm

Friday9am-6pm

Saturday9am-6pm

Sunday10am-6pm

Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses

You are #4 for opening hours

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The next step

Your top opportunities, in one place.

These are your top 17 opportunities, from the 44 checks we run on every business. Tick any of them to see where it takes you.

01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

Where you'd stand#172of 194 Christchurch photography businesses

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Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses

You are #172 overall

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