The Bottlenecks QuizBuilt by Bakker Shields
Find your stage.
Fix the right bottleneck.
Eight questions, about two minutes. You get your stage out of five and the bottleneck that comes with it.
Revenue tells you how big it is. Not what’s broken.
The same diagnostic the instructors run at the Coach Operator Workshop in Dallas. Your full breakdown shows the second you finish.
- Sixty-hour weeks
- Margins shrinking
- The team waits on you
- More ads, same chaos
- Revenue up, freedom down
- Every fire lands on your desk
Five steps. Five different bottlenecks.
The Foundation Trap
Under $15K a month“You’re profitable, but the model isn’t built to scale yet.”
The bottleneckNo consistent, predictable way to get clients.
The Awkward Years
$15K to $35K a month“You scaled the revenue. Now you’re paying for it.”
The bottleneckYou’re maxed out. You can’t take on more clients the way you’re set up.
The Chaos Stage
$35K to $65K a month“Revenue went up. Everything else went sideways.”
The bottleneckEveryone needs you for everything. Churn is high and you don’t know your real numbers.
The Operator
$65K to $100K a month“You built a real business. Now run it like one.”
The bottleneckThe team does the work. Getting them accountable to their own numbers is the hard part.
The Pinnacle
$100K+ a month“The business works. The team works. The question is no longer how to fix it.”
The bottleneckOptimize what you built, or sell something new to the clients you already have.
Real coaches. Their numbers.
Clips from AR Funnel’s Instagram and the client-results page. Results are what these coaches reported in their own businesses, not an average and not a promise.
$5K. $15K. $25K. Eventually $100K a month. Different stages create different problems. Know them early and the next bottleneck stops blindsiding you.@arfunnel.io
Sometimes the answer isn’t adding more. @lockedinprojects realized he was overcomplicating his business.@arfunnel.io
~$115K
“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.”Jared Hamilton · @realjaredhamilton
$145K
“Within several months of starting up with AR, I was basically doubling that. My biggest month since joining AR was 145K.”Brad · @reliant.fitness
$150K to $170K
“After implementing AR, now we’re averaging 150 to 170K months.”Dylan Bair · @dylanbair_rd
$150K+
“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.”Dilan Velagic · @dilanvelagic
$100K
“Best month, 100K without any ads.”Katie Salerni · @katyliftz
$28K
“Going from like 15K for the most part to 28,000 has been pretty cool.”Rachel · AR Funnel client
What AR Funnel clients said on camera.
“I cash collected around $32,000 in June.”
“The biggest thing I’ve gotten from AR is more bandwidth.”
“I thought it would just be whitelabeled software. I should have done it sooner.”
“Within 8 weeks of AR he hit his best month, around $16K to $18K.”
About the quiz.
What is the Bottlenecks Quiz?
An 8-question quiz from AR Funnel that places your coaching business in one of five stages, from The Foundation Trap to The Pinnacle, and shows the bottleneck that comes with that stage.
How long does it take?
About 2 minutes. Your Instagram handle comes first, then 8 questions on revenue, team, hours, retention and how a random Tuesday actually feels. Your contact details come last so we can send your results.
What do I get at the end?
Your stage, out of five, the bottleneck holding that stage back, and your full breakdown for that stage the moment you finish.
Who built the five stages?
Bakker Shields, COO of AR Funnel, built The 5 Stages Framework. It is the same diagnostic used at the Coach Operator Workshop in Dallas.