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When most people think about growing their income, they think about starting another business from scratch. But what if you could skip years of building a customer base, hiring employees, establishing...

Storage facilities, equipment rentals, and even unused attachments can create additional income for blue collar business owners. But before investing, you need to understand the demand, expenses, and ...

RV parks, campgrounds, and other land-based investments can create additional income for blue collar business owners. But the way you develop and manage them determines whether you're buying an asset ...

From equipment yards and shops to office buildings and rental spaces, commercial real estate can help contractors grow their businesses and create additional income. But knowing when and what to buy m...

Building wealth outside your business starts with understanding cash flow, finding opportunities to add value, and knowing your numbers before putting money into real estate. Making good money in your...

Making money in your business is only the first step. Building wealth depends on what you do with that money and whether the things you buy continue putting money back in your pocket.

A new truck, an...

Making more money doesn’t mean you’re building wealth. You can run a multi-million-dollar business, have a yard full of trucks and equipment, stay booked out for months and still have very little t...

A lot of contractors eventually reach a point where experience gives them a pretty good feel for a job. You walk the site, look at the plans, think through the equipment and labor, and a number starts...

A lot of trades workers start businesses because they're good at the service. They know how to run equipment, build, landscape, cut trees, pour concrete, or solve whatever problem the customer is payi...

Growth sounds like the goal. More crews, more trucks, more equipment, more jobs, more revenue. But none of those things automatically mean you have a better business. Sometimes they just mean you have...

A business can be busy, profitable on paper, and growing faster than ever while still heading straight toward a cash problem. That is what we dug into on last week’s Dirt to Dollars call. Financial le...