At the age of 16, Zhou started her entrepreneurial career as a peddler of embroidery hoops, needles and patterns.

FORBES: Smart Investments Push Fortune Of China's Queen of Costume Jewelry, Zhou Xiaoguang, And Her Husband Over $1 Billion

When he had first taken up his trade, he had carried his brushes and pigments on his back, and walked the forest trails like a peddler.

NEWYORKER: The Limner

And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

FORBES: Twas The Night Before Christmas, When All Through Wall Street...

Joseph, 38, learned about the mangosteen in Malaysia, where he worked with Enrich International, a multilevel peddler of vitamins and minerals.

FORBES: Magazine Article

He's a hope peddler.

NPR: Presidential Hopefuls Stump in Early Primary States

Several high-profile internet firms that went public last year, including Zynga, a social-gaming company, and Groupon, a coupon-peddler, have seen their shares fall below their IPO prices and stay there (see chart 1).

ECONOMIST: Valuing Facebook: Zuckerberg��s rocket, ready for lift-off | The

Positioned as the anti-Starbucks, it became not just another coffee peddler but one with a unique POV.

FORBES: How Barnes & Noble Overlooks Its Biggest Asset

Now the consumer will have no easy means of discerning the difference between the them because the product peddler will be able to call himself a fiduciary too.

FORBES: Financial Reform Bill Will Shaft Consumers