What Stage Is Your Coaching Business In? | The Bottlenecks Quiz

Find your stage. Fix the right bottleneck.

Every stage has its own bottleneck. Fix the wrong one and you stay stuck. Answer 8 questions, get your stage, and see the bottleneck that comes with it.

Your stage, out of five

The bottleneck holding that stage back

Your full breakdown for that stage the moment you finish

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Five stages. Five different bottlenecks.

Revenue tells you what stage you're in. It doesn't tell you what's broken. Here's what each stage looks like from the inside.

Stage 1

The Foundation Trap

Under $15K a month

Sounds like

“You're profitable, but the model isn't built to scale yet.”

Money's coming in and things are working. It still doesn't feel like a real business, and you're not sure what's next.

The bottleneck

No consistent, predictable way to get clients.

Stage 2

The Awkward Years

$15K to $35K a month

Sounds like

“You scaled the revenue. Now you're paying for it.”

Making more, keeping less. Working harder than you did at half the revenue.

The bottleneck

You're maxed out. You can't take on more clients the way you're set up.

Stage 3

The Chaos Stage

$35K to $65K a month

Sounds like

“Revenue went up. Everything else went sideways.”

Sales are up and you might have been more profitable at $15K. Some days you want to fire everyone and do it all yourself again.

The bottleneck

Everyone needs you for everything. Churn is high and you don't know your real numbers.

Stage 4

The Operator

$65K to $100K a month

Sounds like

“You built a real business. Now run it like one.”

It's a real business, and you're still the one scrambling for metrics. Things fall through the cracks.

The bottleneck

The team does the work. Getting them accountable to their own numbers is the hard part.

Stage 5

The Pinnacle

$100K+ a month

Sounds like

“The business works. The team works. The question is no longer how to fix it.”

It mostly runs without you. You're working on the business, not in it.

The bottleneck

Optimize what you built, or sell something new to the clients you already have.

Jared Hamilton

@realjaredhamilton

~$30Ka month before~$115Khis highest month with AR

“My sales numbers before signing up with AR was probably around like 30K a month. And then my highest month I’ve ever had with AR was about 115.”

Brad

@reliant.fitness

$40K to $50Ka month, consistently$145Khis biggest month since joining

“I’d like to say before I joined AR, I was consistently in that 40 to 50K a month range. Within several months of starting up with AR, I was basically doubling that. My biggest month since joining AR was 145K.”

Dylan Bair

@dylanbair_rd

$90K to $110Kmonth after month$150K to $170Kaveraging now

“Consistently, we were hitting about 90 to 110,000 month after month, pretty consistently. And then after implementing AR, now we’re averaging 150 to 170K months.”

Dilan Velagic

@dilanvelagic

~$100Kthe month before AR$150K+his first month with AR

“We were working 15 hour days every single day... We felt like we were in a prison more than anything else. And then we joined AR and we got so much of that time back and we were actually able to hit over $150,000 our first month with AR.”