Welcome to the 3to5 Club success tools: Build a Business That Serves Your Life
Get Off the Treadmill Podcast
Join Chuck Blakeman as he dives deep into transformative strategies that empower entrepreneurs to create businesses that work for them, not the other way around.
Books & Tools
Sell Less, Earn More
Check's newest book that is shaking up the small business world! This is a must-have for all small business owners.
Summary: Sell Less, Earn More: Double Your Income in 90 Days with People You Already Know isn’t just another sales book—it’s a revolution. Drawing on 20 years of FasTrak training, it empowers business owners to stop selling and start connecting. This guide helps you abandon outdated, transactional sales tactics and embrace a bold, relationship-first approach that has transformed thousands of businesses and lives worldwide.
Chuck Blakeman challenges you to stop chasing strangers and start building on the relationships you already have. With his "serve, don’t sell" philosophy, you’ll learn how to deepen connections with people you know and forge new ones that go beyond the superficial. This isn’t about cold calls or clever pitches—it’s about creating authentic interactions that help others achieve their ideal lifestyle while growing your business in the process.
If you’re ready to stop stabbing people with your business card and learn how to create a steady stream of potential clients without selling, this book will show you the way. You really can double your income in 90 days. It’s time to sell less and earn more—starting with the people who already trust you.
Making Money Is Killing Your Business
The #1 Rated Business Book of the Year, Making Money Is Killing Your Business is a movement that’s already transformed the lives of tens of thousands of business owners. If you are a business owner who is tired of feeling like you built a job for yourself, you will find no-nonsense, practical principles, practices, and tools to help you stop working for your business and start having it work for you.
If you’re ready to move, get off the treadmill of just making money and build a business that gives you both freedom and purpose; this is your roadmap. Move from survival to a lifestyle of thriving. Life is too short to settle for anything less than a business that provides the life you want.
Why Employees Are Always a Bad Idea
In "Why Employees Are Always a Bad Idea," Chuck challenges the outdated Industrial Age mindset that views workers merely as cogs in a machine. This perspective stifles creativity and engagement, treating individuals as "employees" who require constant oversight. Instead, Chuck advocates for embracing the Participation Age, where we recognize workers as "Stakeholders"—self-motivated, self-managed individuals who contribute their whole selves to the organization.
By eliminating traditional hierarchies, rigid policies, and the need for micromanagement, companies can foster environments that prioritize meaning over mere profit. This shift not only enhances job satisfaction but also leads to greater innovation and financial success. The book provides practical insights and real-world examples of organizations that have successfully transitioned to this model, demonstrating that when we trust and empower people, they rise to the occasion, benefiting both themselves and the company. It's time to move beyond the constraints of the past and build workplaces that value and leverage the full potential of every individual.
Re-HUMAN-izing the Workplace
In Re-Humanizing the Workplace: By Giving Everybody Their Brain Back, I challenge the outdated, command-and-control structures of traditional business and make the case for a new way of working: the Participation Age. It’s simple—businesses thrive when we stop managing people and start trusting them instead.
The book lays out twelve tools of Distributed Decision-Making (DDM), a practical roadmap for ditching management hierarchies and replacing them with systems that empower everyone to take ownership and lead where they stand. These tools aren’t theoretical fluff—they’re real-world strategies that businesses are using right now to create cultures of trust, engagement, and shared purpose.
This isn’t just about making people happier at work (though that happens too). It’s about unleashing untapped potential, driving productivity, and transforming businesses into places where people don’t just work—they thrive. With case studies and actionable steps, this book will show you how to give everyone their brain back and build a workplace that works for everyone—not just the few at the top.
Sell Less, Earn More Toolkit
The Sell Less, Earn More Toolkit is a comprehensive, results-driven resource designed to help business owners implement the key strategies that transform their approach to revenue generation and client acquisition. Built on principles from Chuck Blakeman's celebrated book and FasTrak course, this toolkit empowers you to rethink traditional sales tactics and embrace systems that deliver sustainable, scalable growth.
Making Money Toolkit (MMIKYB)
The MMIKYB Toolkit
This is the perfect companion to the book "Making Money Is Killing Your Business." Most business owners go 30 years and never pay attention to any of the Four Building Blocks of a business. If you don’t, you’re destined to stay on the treadmill, experiencing Groundhog Day year after year with nothing changing. The Business Owners Success Toolkit will put you on the road to freedom. She or he who makes the rules wins. We have a choice! Make your own business rules around the Four Building Blocks: Lifetime Goals, a 2-Page Strategic Plan, a Freedom template with instructions, and a free month as a visitor to our peer-to-peer mastermind group, 3to5 Club.
Download the Business Owners Success Toolkit and put your business on track to make money while you’re somewhere else. Build a business you can enjoy for decades—do it now!
In the download package, you will receive PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with instructions and templates you need to get these three simple but powerful tools working immediately in your business.
If Chuck Blakeman was helping you personally to build the Four Building Blocks into your business, it would cost you many thousands of dollars. If you took these workshops separately, they would still cost you hundreds. If you download them and get moving on your own, you can do it right now for ONLY $99.00
Hiring Toolkit
Transform Your Business with the Hiring Tool Kit
The Hiring Tool Kit turns Chuck’s revolutionary concepts into actionable steps. It’s your practical guide to building a participation-age business by replacing disengaged employees with motivated, self-managed stakeholders (employees).
What You’ll Get
- Step-by-Step Hiring Process: Attract and hire stakeholders (employees) who align with your culture and values—not just their resumes.
- Proven Strategies for Culture Transformation: Shift from micromanagement to leadership that empowers results and autonomy.
- Retention Tools That Work: Create a workplace where top talent thrives and contributes meaningfully.
Stop managing people and start inspiring them. The Participation Age is here—use the Hiring Tool Kit to build a culture that attracts and retains the right people.
Courses
FasTrak (Double Your Income in 90 Days)
Tired of chasing clients and running on the treadmill? FasTrak is a 10-week intensive course designed to double your revenue without outdated sales tactics. Grounded in Chuck Blakeman’s newest book, Sell Less, Earn More, FasTrak teaches you how to attract ready-to-buy clients, prioritize what matters most, and take back control of your time.
Ready to break free and double your revenue in 90 days or less?
2-Page Strategic Plan
2-page Strategic Course Planning Course: Keep It Simple, Keep It Moving
If you're tired of overcomplicated, ineffective business planning, this self-paced Two-Page Strategic Planning Course is for you. Forget business plans that gather dust. Instead, this course helps you focus on a dynamic, practical, and action-driven approach to growing your business. Here's what you'll learn:
- Know Your Core: Define your foundational beliefs, vision, and mission—what you stand for and what drives your business forward.
- Set Clear Objectives: Break down your goals into actionable 12-month, 3-month, and 1-month objectives, focusing on what truly moves the needle.
- Solve Obstacles, Not Problems: Stop fixing issues just to maintain the status quo. Learn how to tackle obstacles that lead to lasting progress.
- Act Your Way to Clarity: Planning doesn’t create momentum—movement does. Start small, iterate, and refine your strategies as you go.
This course challenges you to stop chasing perfection and start executing. It’s not about predicting the future; it’s about preparing to adapt. The result? A business that grows steadily while giving you the freedom to lead intentionally.
Ready to simplify your strategy and make it work? Dive in now and start creating a business you love.
No-Nonsense Lifetime Goals Course
Are you struggling to find your "Big Why" or define your ideal lifestyle?
The No Nonsense Lifetime Goals Course is the cornerstone of Chuck Blakeman's 1st building block to the four building blocks on any business and the #1 step in his 2-Page Strategic Plan, offering a proven path to clarity and purpose.
This course is designed to help you:
- Discover what truly matters in your life and business.
- Identify your most meaningful long-term goals.
- Build a lifestyle aligned with your "Big Why."
- Create actionable, no-nonsense plans to achieve lasting results.
If you're ready to bring focus and direction to your journey, this course is for you.
Coaching & Business Advisory
3to5 Club
Stop Being a rugged individualist— Join a community of like-minded small business owners
Running your business can be lonely, isolating and a little scary. Stop being the Lone Ranger or the rugged individualist stuck in a cycle of working harder but getting nowhere. At the 3to5 Club, you’ll find the freedom to show up, drop the mask, and say the three magic words: “I don’t know.”
This isn’t about pretending you have all the answers. It’s about getting around people who’ve been in the trenches, building businesses that give them time and money, not just one or the other.
3to5 For Me
Introducing 3to5 For Me: Build Your Freedom Business on Your Schedule
Tired of running your business without a clear path to freedom? 3to5 For Me is a self-paced, guided journey to help you implement the proven tools and strategies from Chuck Blakeman’s bestselling books.
Designed for the self-starter, 3to5 For Me delivers one focused module each month so you can learn, apply, and implement concepts that will transform your business. Plus, you’ll join a monthly live community call where you can ask questions, get clarity, and connect with like-minded business owners committed to building a business that creates their ideal life.
Stop spinning your wheels. Start building a business that serves you, not the other way around—all at your own pace.
Business Advisory
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Free Resources
Get Off the Treadmill Podcast
Join Chuck Blakeman as he dives deep into transformative strategies that empower entrepreneurs to create businesses that work for them, not the other way around.
Webinars
Four Building Blocks of Any Business
The "Four Building Blocks of Any Business" webinar by Chuck Blakeman is designed to help business owners harness the three main resources in life: time, money, and energy. The webinar emphasizes the importance of aligning business goals with one's ideal lifestyle and introduces the concept of a business maturity date to guide owners toward their desired outcomes. Participants will learn strategies to ensure their businesses provide more money in less time, enabling them to lead a life of significance.
Your Freedom Number
"Your Freedom Number" webinar by Chuck Blakeman focuses on empowering business owners to achieve predictable and proactive growth. Key topics include understanding the "Freedom Number," identifying the "First Domino"—the most crucial business activity—and mastering the three C's of business development: connections, conversations, and conversions. (link to register)
The 7 Stages of Business Ownership
The "7 Stages of Business Ownership" webinar by Chuck Blakman offers business owners a clear roadmap to transform their businesses into assets that serve them, rather than the other way around. Participants will learn to identify their current stage of business development, strategies to progress to the next stage, and methods to measure personal success beyond business performance. The webinar emphasizes the importance of proactive growth and aligning business objectives with personal goals
The Tyranny of the Urgent
The "Tyranny of the Urgent" webinar by Chuck Blakeman helps business leaders prioritize long-term goals over daily urgencies. Learn strategies to focus on essential tasks, build revenue-generating systems, and align your business with your ideal lifestyle.
Freedom In Your Business
The "Freedom In Your Business" webinar by Chuck Blakeman guides business owners in building a mature business that provides freedom and supports their ideal lifestyle. Key topics include understanding business maturity, strategies to develop a self-sustaining business, and methods to transition from daily operational demands to a more liberated role.
Make More Money In Less Time
The "Make More Money In Less Time" webinar led by Chuck Blakeman, teaches business owners how to boost profits, reduce work hours, and build systems for independence while aligning their business with personal goals.
