Chuck Blakeman

Author, speaker, and founder of the Crankset Group.



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Skinny Line

Your Freedom Number is the Only Number That Matters.


Your business has the same issues as those I visited in Kenya. In the final analysis, there’s only one number in business that really matters, you’re Freedom Number. While I was in Kenya, I had seminars and workshops with everyone from large international businesses to egg vendors in the slums. I wanted to impress on them the importance of net profit, the money that is “left over” after you pay all your expenses including your income.

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I had a shower yesterday… #Kenya


Finding time to blog has been difficult, but these tweets tell it all. I’ll share more tomorrow.

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Small Business in Kenya is not the same


After a great visit to London and Belfast working with business owners (I’ve been asked to come back in May), I was on to Kenya on Thursday, arriving at 9:30pm at night. The ride from the airport was fascinaing. The paved road from the airport was worse than most back roads anywhere in the US. Along the way there were giant open-air tire fires that people were burning to extract the wires – huge billowing black pyres of suffocating smoke.

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He who makes the rules wins.


As I was writing my new book “Making Money is Killing Your Business” and getting feedback on it, a lot of people told me that some of the principles in this book are things they’ve never heard before. I’ve frequently heard, “I’ve never been given permission to think that way.” Allow me to set the record straight. I’ve never had an original thought in my life and I’m pretty sure no one else has either.



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You’re too busy making money; no business can survive that. Your business should give you both time and money. Not just money.

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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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