Home businesses generally lack shop frontage, customer parking and street advertising signs.
Many home businesses are started off in a much smaller capacity whilst the owner is still employed elsewhere, and then expanded once they are proven to be profitable.
The phrase was coined by Marion Behr, the originator of a study to find out what businesses women throughout America were carrying on in their homes.
The preview edition of Enterprising Women[3] wrote about the search to gather information pertaining to home workers throughout the nation.
In 1980 the National Alliance of Homebased Businesswomen was founded to combat the isolation expressed by the respondents as well as to fight the laws which made conducting their businesses difficult.