Chuck Blakeman
Biography
Mr. Blakeman is a lifetime business practitioner who now uses his experience to help business owners create success. His company, The Crankset Group, provides outcome-based mentoring, peer advisory, and consulting for Business Owners, CEOs, and their growing businesses. He speaks and works with businesses in the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Australasia and is on the Board of Advisors for ShopCity.com.
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-$100 million through repositioning in the Marketing Support Services industry.
Mr. Blakeman 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, and multiple appearances in the U.S., Europe and Africa in 2010.
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Books
Making Money is Killing Your Business
by Chuck Blakeman
Price: $24.99 USD. 70170 words.
Published on May 22, 2010. Nonfiction.
Making Money is Killing Your Business 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.
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