cold calls

基本解釋

I am in Sales and I make a lot of cold calls and walk into new businesses everyday to introduce Direct Marketing products.
我是做銷(xiāo)售的，每天都會(huì)打很多陌生電話和拜訪客戶來(lái)推銷(xiāo)公司的產(chǎn)品，我通過(guò)每天去拜訪新客戶讓我養(yǎng)成了遠(yuǎn)離我的舒適區(qū)域的習(xí)慣。
program to help sales people accelerate their business, we decided to use cold calls for practicing new ways of communicating with potential clients.
這一套方法來(lái)幫助銷(xiāo)售從業(yè)者加速做成生意時(shí)，我們決定通過(guò)打冷電話（Cold call）來(lái)練習(xí)運(yùn)用新的溝通方式，接觸潛在顧客。
His grandfather, outwardly easygoing, was frustrated with a luckless career as an insurance salesman: the young Obama would hear him making cold calls that hit a dead end.
他的外公，一個(gè)外表很隨和的人，人生受挫于他那倒霉的保險(xiǎn)推銷(xiāo)員生涯：幼年的Obama 總會(huì)聽(tīng)到他打一些推銷(xiāo)電話，之后又總是不了了之。而他的母親也不在身邊。

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If someone makes a cold call, they telephone or visit someone they have never contacted, without making an appointment, in order to try and sell something.
To cold-call means to make a cold call.
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