And... treat it like a business. Show up on time. Answer your phone/text/emails. If you need to cancel, give notice.

I'm continually flummoxed at how generally bad service industries are in many areas. We had one guy cutting our lawn. BEST EVER. Younger kid - showed up on time, notified ahead when he was coming, would notify if he couldn't make it re: weather delays, then would give us updated time/date. Even more "professional" than professional services we've used. We had one good year, then "I'm going to college, and can't do this any more". He could probably earn more expanding out his operation than he will from whatever college degree he will get. :(

There's only so much demand to go around for a service and a huge amount of demand is taken up by already established businesses in that space.

So now these businesses need people to do the work but are unwilling to pay the people a fair portion of the profit.

It's fair to make a profit but when you have mostly captured a regional market and you're not willing to pay wages to spread the opportunity to people who could also fill the demand that you captured then that's not right.

A successful business is largely a part of having good connections, luck, or some sort of exceptional product/service beyond something a provider with a million dollars can offer.

Like 80% or more (I dont know the exact numbers)in ofmall business fail due to these reasons.