cold calls

基本解释

I am in Sales and I make a lot of cold calls and walk into new businesses everyday to introduce Direct Marketing products.
我是做銷售的，每天都會打很多陌生電話和拜訪客戶來推銷公司的産品，我通過每天去拜訪新客戶讓我養成了遠離我的舒適區域的習慣。
program to help sales people accelerate their business, we decided to use cold calls for practicing new ways of communicating with potential clients.
這一套方法來幫助銷售從業者加速做成生意時，我們決定通過打冷電話（Cold call）來練習運用新的溝通方式，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，一個外表很隨和的人，人生受挫於他那倒黴的保險推銷員生涯：幼年的Obama 縂會聽到他打一些推銷電話，之後又縂是不了了之。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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