A simple but effective marketing technique for a handy man business is to put a flyer in a mailbox and offer free estimates. We helped a client put a flyer together and it was amazing how successful they were. The best thing you can do which we did not is to test market the flyer for the message impact as well as making sure you do not get too many call which you can support. I would space out the flyers over time or over neighborhoods to make sure that you can handle the volume.