The two Duke graduates then made a cold call to the institute asking if it could use the property.
Then in December 1999 Otari got a cold call from QuantumShift, a small Novato, Calif. firm that manages telecom costs.
My job was to cold call hot Bay Area technology startups to secure a meeting for my team with the CEO.
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With Marvell, he admits he got lucky by accepting a cold call from Weili Dai and Sehat Sutardja, who were then unknown.
Goodwin beams, knowing she converted a cold call into a solid lead.
He placed a cold call, and the recipient, a manager at a similar company, agreed to interview for the position and was eventually hired.
Most of them are fine with sending emails, but ask them to make a cold call or a major sales presentation and they struggle with it tremendously.
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If you really listen to what they are saying on social media, you can open doors and start a conversation without having to make a cold call.
When a potential customer complains they are frustrated, they are far more likely to engage with a sales person who responds to their frustration than a cold call pitching a product.
Stewart Grassie, an investor from Scotland, testified that he was solicited by a cold call from a Sky Capital representative and eventually decided to invest some money through Adam Harrington at Sky.
With these orders in his pocket, Trask traveled to Maine and made a cold call on the L.L. Bean shoe buyer, knowing that Bean was interested in unique merchandise with a sporting image.
Two days later I got a cold call from a producer at Hoff Productions near San Francisco, who do a lot of stuff for Animal Planet, Discovery, the Speed Network and so on.
You can also cold-call, advertise, and use email lists to find potential interviewees.
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The doctor returned her cold-call e-mail, and suggested she go Rhode Island Hospital, where Dr. Damian Dupuy performed the ablation procedure.
He employs a part-time assistant but plans to hire a full-time researcher to cold-call franchisees who might be having concerns about their corporate parents.
Hear this: nothing comes across as more flaccid than cold-call emails.
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My friendly answer: If you make business news, expect a call, cold or otherwise.
If confusion or dizziness is noted in any elderly person who appears to have cold pale skin, call 911 immediately.
This pole-centred roundel of warm-in-cold is symptomatic of what climatologists call the negative phase of the Arctic oscillation (AO).
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For that call, I received a polite cold shoulder from the other panelists who were making those year-end predictions.
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In terms of marketing, cold calling is done because of the do not call lists, and seminars are played out.
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With that in mind, I used it as my main phone for a few weeks to see whether a handful of truly unique hardware extras, and the leap to Windows Phone 8, make it a more viable device than predecessors like the Lumia 900 -- not necessarily for a technology news editor, but certainly for anyone trying to call, chat and navigate through a cold season.
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For her part, Lady Thatcher has in 1996 issued a no-less-clarion call about the dangers emerging in the post-Cold War world.
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But investors' cold feet also might have something to do with what behavioral economists call the "disjunction effect, " the idea that people don't think one step ahead when making decisions because they're waiting for more information.
When the glow of the holidays fades away, and there are still months of cold ahead, the warm, clear waters of the islands to the south call to us.
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