Cold calling is the marketing process of approaching prospective customers or clients—typically via telephone, by email or through making a connection on a social network—who were not expecting such an interaction. The word "cold" is used because the person receiving the call is not expecting a call or has not specifically asked to be contacted by a sales person. A cold call is usually the start of a sales process generally known as telemarketing.
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Famous quotes containing the words cold and/or calling:
“Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
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Its May 20th and the leaves,
green, green, wearing their masks
and speaking, calling out their Sapphic loves,
are hereherehere
calling out their death wish:
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—Anne Sexton (19281974)