making cold calls
cold calling

I had contacted him by phone, cold calling, and I was interested to see if he would show.

Over time he developed his own list of clients, some through cold calling.

For example, do you just need cold calling, or would you require someone to be contactable at all times?

She has tried a variety of tactics, even cold calling.

Instead of cold calling, we stepped up marketing via our network of partners.

She did her share of cold calling and gave seminars for big corporations.

Already, Lehman has slowed its retail brokers enough to force them to get new customers in ways other than "cold calling."

It's known as cold calling, which in their case probably describes the reception they get.

Raising money through cold calling of churches and individuals he found while reading the "society pages", the Kitchen gradually took shape.

They must not engage in face-to-face "cold calling", or in any form of high pressure selling.