0 to call or visit a possible customer to try to sell them something without being asked by the customer to do so:
1 to phone or visit a possible customer to try to sell them a product or service without being asked by the customer to do so:
2 a phone call or visit from someone trying to sell a product or service who has not been asked by the customer to do this:
Have you been cold-called by someone offering to buy or sell shares?
The main advantage of social networks is that they help users meet people they otherwise might have to cold-call.
So a traditional research strategy -- cold-call to request interviews, or send out a survey -- seemed doomed to failure.
They contacted us, and we were able to ourselves - you cold-call universities in the state and find a psychologist who had familiarity with this population.
We would cold-call unsuspecting folks at dinnertime, reaching them on their kitchen landlines as they ate what we presumed to be bleak microwave meals for one.