door to door
Selling by visiting
Door to door describes movement or activity proceeding from one house or building to the next in sequence.
Salespeople go door to door selling products; canvassers go door to door gathering signatures.
The phrase also measures complete journeys from origin to destination: The trip takes three hours door to door.
As an adjective, usually hyphenated: door-to-door delivery.
- canvassingSystematic direct voter outreach
- in-homeOccurring at someone's residence
- knockStrike-produced sound
- directUndeviating or to guide
- salespersonOne who moves merchandise
domiciliary · solicitation · face-to-face · household · personalized · welcome mat · trick or treat · cold calling · grassroots organizing · lead generation · parcel delivery · home delivery · evangelism · courier service · package tracking · direct selling · express delivery · Avon
- fundraisingdonation, donations, donor, donors, fundraiser
- marketingadvertising, digital marketing, ad campaign, advertisements, ads
- shippingshipping, cargo ships, container ships, freight, package
- freightcargo, cargo ships, air freight, freight rates, bulk freight
- Christian ministryministry, preaching, evangelists, missionaries, discipleship
- evangelismgospel outreach, evangelize, evangelist, born again, evangelizing
door to dooronline retail
Buying goods via internet
e-commerce · online shopping · mail order · brick and mortar · in-store
door to doorindirect
Not straight or immediate
hub and spoke · station to station · roundabout · circuitous · segmented
door to doormass mailing
Large-scale postal distribution
direct mail · robocalling · phone banking · broadcast advertising · digital advertising
door, doors, doored, doorway, doorways, doorstep, doorsteps, doorbell, doorbells