How to Be a Successful Owner Operator

I want to help people by giving them top quality for a fair price, but I don't want to go broke doing it. What ended up happening was I trained all my customers to expect a discount. And because I had so many people that got discounts, word spread that I was given discounts. It turned into this situation where I couldn't make the margin to actually pay the billsMy business became very real that this was a problem and how did I solve it? One day, man, they came in and they said, you know, hey, you know,. This is I ring I rang up their product and let's just say it was 30 bucks. They usually this is 27 bucks