How to Use cold call in a Sentence
cold call
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Surprisingly, even the age-old cold call can be effective if your product and pitch are compelling.
— Maximilian Kramer, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024 -
Gone are the days of the effectiveness of the cold call.
— Tony Pec, Forbes, 13 May 2022 -
That cold call wasn’t a slam dunk for Sonder House at first.
— Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2022 -
As for the cold call, hearing ‘no’ a lot does bother me.
— Steve Jagler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018 -
My parents used to do an old Russian treatment for a cold called a gogol mogol.
— The Healthyish Team, Bon Appetit, 7 Mar. 2018 -
And sometimes just getting that first cold email, the first cold call, to land — because that’s the one that can start the momentum.
— Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 10 May 2022 -
The cold calls go out, hundreds a day, from a dank basement in the redwood hills south of San Francisco.
— Sabrina Willmer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019 -
Don’t respond to a cold call out of the blue relating to Medicare, as those aren’t even allowed.
— Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2019 -
But a cold call from one of the Beatles was a little more unusual.
— Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 15 Nov. 2021 -
Aaron Wilson tells the story of how Gaine got here, featuring one critical cold call to the Jets.
— Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 16 Mar. 2018 -
More than a year of research and dozens of cold calls led her to the one textile factory that would work with such a small, upstart business.
— Ariella Gintzler, Outside Online, 6 Apr. 2018 -
Some internet sleuthing and a cold call turned up a cache of Peugeots in a field in nearby Langley, BC.
— Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 3 July 2022 -
After a few years, trainees developed reliable clients and no longer had to cold call.
— Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 24 May 2021 -
Fraudsters find their victims across the country through cold calls, door knocking, email, Facebook ads and Craigslist.
— Kaiser Health News, oregonlive.com, 3 Aug. 2019 -
Taken with the concept, Oliver made a cold call to the short’s creators and hatched a plan to take the material from four minutes to feature film.
— Rivea Ruff, Essence, 13 Sep. 2022 -
Learning how to cold email, cold call, building relationships with car dealerships and all that kind of stuff with the reps.
— Kathryn Dill, WSJ, 16 July 2021 -
Research suggests that the average open rate for emails is just over 20%, while the answer rate for cold calls is even lower, standing at just 2%.
— Maggie Mistovich, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023 -
My most regrettable investing move was taking a cold call many years ago.
— The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2023 -
Unlike others in the industry, Mr. Green is unabashed stressing the importance of pumping the phones with cold calls.
— Scott Martin, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017 -
Instead of focusing on taproom sales, Greiner and Hahn made cold calls and pounded the pavement to get their beers into restaurants and bars.
— Andre Meunier, oregonlive.com, 21 Aug. 2019 -
Their cold call on TikTok in late October ended up with a box delivered to their door this week, just minutes before they were set to head to the airport for the event.
— Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022 -
Owners seeking to sell their piece of the timeshare are drawing much of the cartel's attention, though cold calls to random numbers are also used.
— Karol Suárez, The Courier-Journal, 27 July 2023 -
Schultz sold Xerox copiers in midtown Manhattan, pounding pavements and making fifty cold calls a day.
— Ben Fountain, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019 -
His latest sponsor, however, didn’t need a cold call in the traditional sense.
— Greg Engle, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022 -
The idea was that Warren campaign volunteers would cold call Democrats and urge them to support the senator from Massachusetts in the primaries.
— John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2020 -
This best-selling coat rack on Amazon is a stylish entryway must-have, especially come winter when the rain, snow, and cold calls for coats, umbrellas, hats, and more.
— Gabriela Izquierdo, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2023 -
That forced researchers to comb through social media and make telephone cold calls to search for potential participants.
— Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2018 -
But what obligates a business to reply to unsolicited messages and cold calls?
— Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024 -
At a phone bank a week after the first presidential debate, former teacher Beth Gildea spent hours making cold calls to strangers on behalf of Kamala Harris.
— Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2019 -
Mraz spoke to Billboard prior to stepping on stage earlier this month to discuss getting the cold call from Sara Bareilles, the mastermind behind the entire show, asking him to try his hand at Broadway.
— Allison Stubblebine, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2017
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