Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain recorded mass phone pitches for Mr. Davis.
Kearney's old boss at Notre Dame, Mike Brey, spent a lot of time on the phone pitching Kearney to Regan when the job was open.
And they assert that with $100 billion in sales generated from calls to consumers last year, many Americans clearly respond favorably to phone pitches.
Conventional wisdom has been that Google would concentrate on software for a mobile phone, pitching it against Windows Mobile and, of course, Apple's iPhone.
But several weeks ago, she started receiving phone pitches from a cemetery trying to persuade her to prepay her funeral costs.
The list appeals to people like the Buffalo retiree fed up with phone pitches to subscribe to a newspaper he already receives, the woman in central Pennsylvania who hates being disturbed when she is baking, and a Denver-area homeowner who sometimes just hangs up on solicitors hawking home refinance services during dinnertime.
A few more innovations like that could go a long way toward eradicating those insufferable computerized phone pitches.
Goodwin immediately gave Fish the green light over the phone, pitched the RBS board, and the whole deal was completed by July.
Alegre said that when she and her co-founder Sean Fannan were starting out, they did 30 phone pitches to potential investors in a week.
The company's PR representative has been shameless in namedropping mutual pals in the hope of providing social proof, and she even admitted (really) to having spent ten minutes on the phone pitching a totally different Paul Carr in the UK before realizing her error.
The Fire Phone will pitch Amazon into a fight dominated by Apple and Samsung, which dominate the smartphone market.
