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And making cold calls to set up an "information interview" can produce results.

"Six months ago we were ready to open for business and we went out making cold calls."

This could be preparing reports or making cold calls to potential clients.

Of these, 405 signed up, a percentage he said was far better than what recruiters could do making cold calls.

But making cold calls is considered an entree to the highly competitive industry.

Students from Asian countries, for example, are often uncomfortable marketing themselves and making cold calls seeking jobs.

Incredibly, she was going up and down the grungy halls, making cold calls.

The stocks were sold by more than 1,000 salesmen making cold calls and reading from sales scripts.

He said one firm, which he did not identify, marketed a particular tax shelter by making cold calls to thousands of people across the country.

"When I started making cold calls, people were curious about my accent and always wanted to know where I was from," he said.

My grandfather made his living selling office products by going door-to-door and by making cold calls on the telephone.

Ms. Scott has been making cold calls to prospective employers for a month and has some promising leads.

It's like a broker making cold calls."

Without his office's efforts, Mr. O'Hare might be making cold calls to this day.

Mrs. Glasser began by making cold calls, soliciting business from local insurance companies and brokerage houses.

And the best way, she now realizes, is the traditional approach of networking, going to interviews and making cold calls to recruiters and hiring managers.

Part of the scout's job will be to work the phones like a telemarketer, making cold calls to high school students and evoking the mystique of Maine.

She worked from a virtual office for four years, making cold calls, going over E-mail and doing other desk jobs at home before driving to her sales territory, which was nearby.

He went from office to office, making cold calls (he called them "gold calls") to sell casualty insurance, and he was soon making $100 a week.

Mr. Schneiderman, 33, spent the second half of 1996 working for a Long Island concern, making cold calls to strangers and selling himself as a reliable investment consultant.

The insurance lobby is powerful and popular, and its agents, no strangers to making cold calls, are in every Congressional district and have been active on Capitol Hill.

So-called boiler rooms, where brokers work phone banks making cold calls, are where phonetic similarities are most likely to create mischief, said John L. Perkins, Missouri's securities commissioner.

Nonetheless, says Abe, an intense man clad in the businessman's uniform (a dark blue suit, striped shirt and dark blue tie), salesmen spend most of their time making cold calls on perfect strangers.

Mr. Serricchio said he tried for more than three months to return to work, and when he finally was given a new assignment, it was making cold calls for a $2,000-a-month draw on commission.

That's because I spent two years of my life cold calling.

Cold calling is a bad way to build a business.

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

Cold calling, as I have pointed out, was not my idea of fun.

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

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

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

Cold calling by brokers has turned into a hot industry, but it's easy to get burned.

Cold calling and charging for services which could be obtained free of charge.

To build up a book of clients, baby brokers must spend their first 24 months cold calling, 12 hours a day.

This was home, the darkness, the cold calling him, a prison whose lock must be broken no matter the cost.

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

Cold calling in an electronic medium is even worse.

If your job searches aren't turning up any openings, try cold calling companies you want to work for.

"But cold calling people who have not consented to their details being used in this way is quite different.

I don't want to spend extra on essentials for advertising and cold calling.

I would think a web designer would waste a lot of time cold calling, whether it is done by phone or in person.

Whether it was just totally cold calling or it's referrals or whatever.

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

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

Emphasizes techniques and tactics for social engineering cold calling.

Under Washington law, people making the initial contact with potential clients, whether through cold calling or direct mailing, have to be licensed.

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.

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