Making Money Is Killing Your Business, How to Build a Business You'll Love and Have a Life, Too

You’re Too Busy Making Money. No Business Can Survive That.

- Build a business that makes money while you're on vacation

- Get a grip on why businesses never grow up, and how yours can.

- Move your business from survival, through success, to significance.

- Grow a business quickly that you can enjoy for decades.

Making Money is Killing Your Business is built on profoundly simple ideas that have been around forever and ignored as being too simple to work. Chuck Blakeman has learned the hard way that profound things are always simple. These few things will revolutionize any business willing to give up complexity for effectiveness.

Making Money helps business owners move from a focus on trying to make money to building a business that does it for them while they’re on vacation. It debunks the idea that small business is a 30 year grind, and introduces the concept of building a business in just three to five years that runs itself.

Making Money also replaces the traditional concept of retirement with using your business to quickly build your Ideal Lifestyle, moving you and your business from survival through success to significance.

Your business should throw off both time and money, not just money. This book helps business owners make more money in less time, get back to the passion that brought them into business in the first place, and build a business they can enjoy for decades.

Chuck Blakeman is a lifetime business practitioner who now uses his experience to help business owners create success. He speaks and works with businesses in the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Australasia. His company, The Crankset Group, provides outcome-based mentoring, peer advisory, and consulting for Business Owners, CEOs, and their growing businesses.

Mr. Blakeman began his career in the U.S. Army, followed by 13 years service in non-profit leadership development. He started and grew five small businesses, including one sold to the largest consumer fulfillment company in America. He helped lead three other companies between $20-$100million through repositioning in the Marketing Support Services industry.

Mr. Blakeman is considered a thought leader in the Marketing Support Services industry and has decades of experience in sales, marketing and operations of companies involved in branding, database and website development, call centers, fulfillment, printing and direct mail processing.

Some of Mr. Blakeman’s customers have included Microsoft, Apple, Eli Lilly, TAP Pharmaceuticals, Sun Microsystems, Tyco Healthcare, Johns Manville and many more. He is a regular convention speaker, magazine contributor, and non-profit board member. His new book, “Making Money is Killing Your Business” is radically changing the way business owners understand growth.

Recent appearances include Entrepreneur Magazine, CNNMoney.com, NYTimes.com, Bizjournals.com, CoBiz Magazine, Home Business Magazine, keynote speaker at MFSA/Maui, and many others.

Chuck is available for one2one advising, conference workshops and seminars to help business owners make more money in less time and get back to the passion that brought them into business in the first place.