Written for the owner in the cab.
What to charge, how to start, how the phone gets answered, and how strangers find you. Every number carries a date and a source. Every guide answers the question in the first paragraph.
15 guides
Land Clearing Rates: What to Charge Per Acre
Published ranges are what the landowner sees. Your price comes from your machine hour, the density, and what is left standing when you leave.
Read the guideDemolition Cost: How to Price a Teardown
Square footage is a sanity check, not a price. The real bid is permits, disconnects, asbestos, machine hours, hauling, and tipping fees, each on its own line.
Read the guideHow to Start an Excavation Business
One machine, a trailer, the right insurance, and three months of cash gets you started. Three boring habits turn it into a company.
Read the guideGoogle Business Profile for Contractors
The free listing that sends more calls than your website. An afternoon to fix, ten minutes a week to feed, and what changed in 2026.
Read the guideMissed Call Text Back for Contractors
What it is, what the message should say word for word, the rules that apply, and why it matters more in dirt work than any other trade.
Read the guideSnow Removal Business for Dirt-Work Contractors
How to keep the iron working from November to March: seasonal versus per push, pricing, the equipment you already own, and selling it before the first storm.
Read the guideContractor CRM: The One You Will Use From the Cab
Five jobs a contractor CRM has to do, what to skip, and why most of them are abandoned by March.
Read the guideStarting a Land Clearing Business
The mulcher versus excavator decision, what the first machine really costs, your hour, the paperwork, and how landowners find you.
Read the guideHow to Start a Demolition Business
Licenses, insurance, the first machine, the asbestos conversation, and getting the first ten jobs from buyers who will only ever hire you once.
Read the guideLand Clearing Leads Without Buying Them
We don't sell leads. We help you stop losing the ones you already get.
Read the guideForestry Mulching Rates: Per Hour and Per Acre
What to charge, when to quote by the hour instead of the acre, what to tell the customer about afterward, and how to start a mulching business.
Read the guideHow to Bid Excavation Jobs
Cost per machine hour, production rates, cost per yard, what goes in the estimate, and how to stop losing to the guy who bids under his cost.
Read the guideGoogle Ads for Contractors
When ads make sense for a dirt-work company and when they burn money. The readiness checklist, what a click costs, and how a small account is built.
Read the guideWhat an Excavation Website Should Cost
What each price tier actually buys, the eleven things a dirt-work site must have, and the three things that are usually wrong first.
Read the guideSkid Steer Business: One Machine to an Outfit
What to charge per hour, the attachments that pay, the jobs to take and skip, and how to stop being the guy with one skid steer.
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