teleselling

6.0

Selling products or services by phone to customers

noun
/ˈtɛlɪˌsɛlɪŋ/

: televenta

Many companies rely on teleselling to reach new customers and increase sales.

Examples

The teleselling campaign was very successful.
He started his career in teleselling before moving into field sales.
Some people find teleselling to be more efficient than face-to-face marketing.
Many companies rely on teleselling to reach customers.
Many companies rely on teleselling to reach new customers and increase sales.
He started his career in teleselling before moving into field sales.
Some people find teleselling to be more efficient than face-to-face marketing.

Synonyms

telemarketing

vsteleselling

22 3.7

A way of calling people by phone to sell products or services

focuses more on completing transactions rather than on finding customers

telecommerce

vsteleselling

Archaic

7.9

Selling goods or services to customers by telephone

is the general practice of offering products via calls without stressing interactivity

How Direct

door-to-door

18 3.5

teleselling

6.0

emailer

Jargon

3.3

direct mail

11 3.2

advertising

878 2.7

Surface Forms

teleselling singular

telesellings plural

Morphology

teleselling = selling (transparent) = tele + sell + ing

The word is a straightforward combination of tele- meaning by telephone and selling, so the meaning is readily recoverable from its parts.

Etymology

Teleselling combines the part tele- meaning 'far', as in telephone and television, with selling. So teleselling is selling done from a distance, usually by phone.