door-to-door sales
Neighborhood direct selling
Door-to-door sales is the practice of selling products or services by visiting people at their homes without prior appointment.
Salespeople canvass neighborhoods, knocking on doors to pitch vacuum cleaners, encyclopedias, magazine subscriptions, or religious conversion.
The approach has declined with the rise of online shopping and increased wariness of strangers, though it persists in some industries.
He got his start in door-to-door sales.
- cold callingUnsolicited sales contact
- upsellingEncouraging costlier purchases
- direct sellingCommerce without retail middlemen
- vacuum cleanersSuction-based floor cleaners
- encyclopediasMulti-volume knowledge collections
Avon · persuasion · vendor · rejection · legal restrictions · rapport building · telemarketing · objection handling · not interested · closing techniques · canvassing · foot in the door · knock on wood · multi-level marketing · product demonstration · hawker · peddler · independent contractors
- sales repsfield agents, representatives, drummers, pitchmen, peddlers
- sales tacticsupselling, cross-selling, hard sell, soft sell, high pressure
- salespeoplesalesperson, car salesman, door-to-door salesman, salespeople, used car salesman
- peddlerspeddler, hawker, vendor, street vendor, pushcart
- solicitationsrequest, plea, entreaty, appeal, solicitations
- debit insuranceburial insurance, insurance agents, policyholders
door-to-door salese-commerce
Internet-based buying and selling
online sales · online shopping · catalog sales · telesales · automated checkout