Chuck Blakeman

Author, speaker, and founder of the Crankset Group.



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Ambient Awareness? Really? Do you buy from the “Ambiently Aware?”


Do you buy from the Ambiently Aware? Are you Ambiently challenged? Can we stuff more syllables into a smaller space?

In the September 5th New York Times, there was an article called Brave New World of Digital Intimacy exploring how relationships have changed now that we’re sharing our lives on-line via LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and others. It didn’t take long for intellectuals to create fancy compartment labels for online business relationships.

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Fixing Your Marketing: Go deep, not Broad


One of the biggest marketing challenges is accepting the difference between finding customers who WILL buy over those MOST LIKELY to buy. This is one of the toughest marketing concepts to get a business to embrace, and possibly the most important.

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Fixing Your Marketing; Random Hope is not a Marketing Strategy


Why doesn’t our marketing work? We are measuring the wrong thing.

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Fixing Your Marketing; Build it and they will come – not.


One of at least seven reasons why you’re marketing doesn’t work.

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The Financial Sector Rescue Plan is Answering the Wrong Question


Asking the right question is the biggest part of getting the right answer. The question the government is asking is “How do we keep the financial sector failures from creating an economic catastrophe?” Answering this question does nothing to keep it from happening again. It is curative and reactive when we need something preventative and proactive.



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I started Crankset Group out of a desire to help small businesses in the Denver, Colorado area grow and mature. It continues to mature itself as we bring a lot of the tools and practices that I’ve created working one-on-one with business owners over the years online. Now these tools and resources are available to you.

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