"making initial contact" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means the act of establishing communication or connection with someone for the first time. Example: "After months of research, the sales team was finally ready to start making initial contact with potential clients."
It's all about working with local sales agents, making initial contact and finding the right retailers.
Reactions at the time were mixed, with the move drawing support from the Labour politician Harriet Harman, while the future president of the UCI Brian Cookson – at that point he was the president of British Cycling – was also supportive and indeed assisted with making initial contact between Le Tour Entier and ASO.
However, making initial contact with a lab was still a hurdle, she adds, and her inability to communicate in Japanese made the whole exercise "a little frustrating".
The use of a mixed-mode format in which mailed invitation letters were used in order to direct respondents to an internet survey was intended as a means of addressing the problems associated with the use of email as a means of making initial contact with a representative sample of the general population (Dillman 2000; Sexton et al. 2011).
Our results showed: (a) an 18% difference (P < 0.0001) in the mean number of female Aedes albopictus (Skuse) making initial contact with the skin (9.11 ± 0.74 min–1) compared with the number remaining on the skin for 5 s (7.42 ± 0.69 min–1); (b) an increase (P < 0.05) in the mean per minute (min−1) landing responses of Culex nigripalpus Theobald and Cx.
After two weeks of making initial contact and a flurry of emails where I asked a billion questions, she sent me an email that sent chills up my spine because she introduced a topic that I hadn't even considered to be a reality –- my birth father.
One of the two made initial contact with the well-bore on Thursday, Admiral Allen said.
*Cashman made initial contact with all agents for the players eligible for free agency, Chuck Knoblauch among them.
The Yankees have made initial contact with the agent for José Contreras, the right-handed pitcher who defected from Cuba.
Todd Hoffman, national director of recruiting for tax and legal services at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said that about 3percentt of the 900 people he has hired this fiscal year made initial contact via the Internet.
The regulator added: "Our door is always open to discuss credible proposals and we have made initial contact with Sir Philip's advisers to remind them of this point following comments that we have not engaged with them.
