In addition to location, home businesses are usually defined by:

* Having a very small number of employees, usually all immediate family of the business owner, in which case it is also a family business. * Lacking a shop frontage, customer parking and street advertising signs. A business broker is a person that acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of businesses.

Business brokers, also called business transfer agents, or intermediaries, assist buyers and sellers of privately held business in the buying and selling process.