When you start a handyman business most people will start from home. This means that your office is a room in your home. You go to work at other people's homes fixing what they need. Most of your time will be spent talking to customers and potential customers. You also need to make time to network with other business owners.
Its important to get out of your work environment and and develop relationships with other business owners. Why? It will help you to know what is going on in your community, meet people whom you may be able to do joint advertising with, you might be able to give referrals and receive them, plus it is nice to know what others businesses are doing.
Networking is going out and meeting people and developing a relationship with them. You tell people about yourself and your business in person. You meet bankers, real estates agents, lawyers, all kinds of business people that can help your business succeed (and in return you can help them also).
So where to you go to network? Start with your local Chamber of Commerce. Join it and from there you should meet a lot of other business owners. Offer to give talks at the Knights of Columbus, see if you have a local chapter of BNI (Business Network International). Real Estate companies in my area have weekly meetings, see if you can give a talk during part of their meeting, (if you do and its in the morning bring donuts, if its a lunch meeting, bring pizza, real estate agents love to be fed, I now I used to run an office).
The idea is to get out and develop long term relationships with other business owners and eventually they will start to do some word of mouth advertising for you and who does not want some free advertising.