door-to-door sales

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, door-to-door sales has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Proven Podcast (Aug 2025).

Door-to-door is a canvassing technique that is generally used for sales, marketing, advertising, evangelism or campaigning, in which the person or persons walk from the door of one house to the door of another, trying to sell or advertise a product or service to the general public or gather information. People who use this sales approach are often known as traveling salesmen, or by the archaic name drummer, and the technique is also sometimes called direct sales. A variant of this involves cold