For barbers

A clean fade for your ad budget.

Tony checks every Facebook and Instagram ad your barbershop runs at 7am and tells you which ones bring new clients at a price worth paying, and which ones waste money on one-off deal hunters.

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Read-only, we can never change your adsFree audit in four minutesNo contract, no sales call
Today, 7:00am Barbershop
Wasted spend stopped, per month$0

Flick a switch once you’ve turned that ad off.

Example account. Yours uses your own numbers.

Why it matters

Every suburb has three barbers.

Barbershops live and die on regulars, and Instagram is where new ones find you.

  • 138,735Australian businesses in “other services”, the group that includes hairdressers, beauty salons and mechanics1.
  • US$51median Facebook cost per lead for beauty and personal care in the US2.
  • +21%rise in the average Facebook cost per lead in a year (US data)3. Every wasted lead costs more than it used to.

Pick what’s hurting most

Where barbershop ad money gets trimmed.

See it in action

Your morning with Tony, in 20 seconds.

The check, your numbers, every ad with its call, and the alert when something goes wrong.

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What you’d keep each year.

Set your own numbers: what you spend on ads, what you pay an agency (slide it to zero if you run them yourself), the share you think goes to ads that never bring a client, and your average client.

An example using the numbers you choose, not a promise. Your free audit works out the real waste from your own ads.

Kept each year
Agency fees above Tony’s price
Spend on ads that won’t pay

Find my real number

Agency or Tony

You pay an agency for its time. How much of it is in your account?

For a barbershop, a social media retainer can cost the same as a chair’s rent. Here’s what it typically buys.

A typical agencyTony
How often your ads get looked at
Often once a week, or when the monthly report is due. Ask yours.
Every live ad, every morning at 7am, plus hourly alerts when one starts burning money.
What it costs
Commonly $500–5,000 a month, or 10–20% of your ad spend45. The fee often grows when your spend does.
From A$99 a month. The same price at any spend.
Contract
Many want a 3–6 month minimum, some 6–125.
Monthly. Cancel any time. 7-day free trial.
What they judge your ads on
Clicks, reach, cost per lead. The numbers Ads Manager shows.
Cost per client: tell Tony which leads became paying work, and junk-lead ads stop looking like winners.
Who keeps control
They log in to your account and change things you may never see.
You. Tony is read-only: it tells you what to change, you make the change in Ads Manager.

Plenty of agencies do good work. If yours does, the check below will say so.

Check your agency

Six questions. Thirty seconds.

Answer honestly. Nobody sees this but you.

  • Does someone look at your ads every single day?

  • Could you name, right now, the ad that brought your last paying client?

  • Do their reports show cost per client, not just reach, clicks and leads?

  • Are you locked into a minimum contract?

  • Does their fee go up when your ad spend goes up?

  • If an ad started wasting money this morning, would you hear about it today?

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Questions

Before you start

We take walk-ins as well as bookings. Can Tony count them?

Each week you tell Tony how many leads became clients, walk-ins included.

Do I need a website?

No. Instagram, Messenger and booking-link ads all work.

Will it change my ads?

Never. Tony is read-only. It tells you what to do and why; you make the change in Ads Manager, in about ten minutes a morning.

What does it cost after the free audit?

Tony Pro is A$99 a month, the same price whether you spend a little or a lot on ads. Monthly, no contract, with a 7-day free trial.

Working out a budget? Start with what a lead is worth to you, or see all our guides.

Keep the chairs full.

Your first check is free, and it takes four minutes.

Start the free audit

Also for

Hair salonsBeauty, nails, lash and browCosmetic and injectables clinicsGyms and personal trainers

Sources. Figures from other countries say so. Dollar amounts are shown in your currency, converted at Reserve Bank of Australia rates for 9 October 2026 and rounded; each source has the original. Tony itself uses your own numbers.

  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, July 2022 – June 2026 (businesses operating at June 2026). www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/business-indicators/counts-australian-businesses-including-entries-and-exits/jul2022-jun2026
  2. WordStream (LocaliQ), Facebook Ads Benchmarks 2025: medians of 726 US lead campaigns, April 2024 – June 2025. www.wordstream.com/blog/facebook-ads-benchmarks-2025
  3. Search Engine Land, “Facebook ad costs jump 21% in 2025, but still beat Google”, September 2025 (WordStream LocaliQ data). searchengineland.com/facebook-ad-costs-jump-beat-google-461690
  4. Margin Media, “How much does it cost to advertise on Facebook in Australia?”, October 2024: management usually A$500–5,000 a month, or 10–20% of ad spend. marginmedia.com.au/our-blog/facebook-ad-costs-australia
  5. Linear Design, Facebook ads management pricing guide, 2026: US$500–5,000+ a month or 10–25% of spend; many require 3–6 month minimums, some 6–12. lineardesign.com/blog/facebook-ads-management-pricing-guide/