2021-05-10 17:03:15
Real-world opportunities from Reddit posts. I'm attaching links to the source posts with comments below each opportunity.
Basically I'm an outbound call salesman, and I make about 100 calls a day. I don't absolutely hate it, but it's something I could definitely streamline if I could talk to someone about automation. For example, i leave about 40+ voicemails a day and I was wanting to make an mp3 file I could just play when i get a voicemail.
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Over the last few years I have developed a bit of an anxiety over unknown callers to my phone. This actually all stems from my mom passing away at the hospital and the hospital trying to reach me from an unknown number during CPR.How can I make it so that whenever someone calls my personal cell phone number, an automated voice message says, to speak with “MyName” press one, And then my phone would ring. This would eliminate 80% of the phone calls that I receive a day. I just want the caller to have to press a number to then be connected to me.
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This is always a tedious process. I have to create a case, copy and paste the text into the Salesforce email, attach the Monthly Summary Statement, copy and paste the email address of the account contact and send. Then I have to notate in the comment section that I sent the monthly summary statement (current or past due). Finally I close the case. The comments gets transferred over to our database overnight. There has to be an easier way to do this! Even just using Outlook alone would be easier, having to do this in Salesforce just doubles the work but we are required to use Salesforce to send out emails.
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For work I have to do a simple task on a daily basis that just screams: "automate me!"
What I have to do:
I have between 1 and 6 CSV files with slightly different names that I open in Notepad++, convert to UTF-8 and then save.
So I have two questions about this process:
Can this be automated? (I'm pretty sure it can)
Can I do this with Python and is this a good exercise for a complete beginner?
If there is another programming language that is better suited for this I would still like to try it with Python for training purposes.
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