The Salesman 2016

[Amice Golden]

Asalesman is someone who works in sales, with the main function of selling products or services to others either by visiting locations, by telephone, or in a store/shop, in which case other terms are also common, including retail clerk, salesperson, salesclerk, and shop assistant.

I have this workflow which uses a nearest neighbor macro (greedy algorithm) to do a local optimization approximating the traveling salesman problem. It simply iterates through each remaining location until every location is visited (because of the sheer number of permutations it is impossible to do a global optimization) and determines the shortest path visiting every location. I want to approximate the global optimization by reiterating the macro with each location serving as the starting point. Then I want it to select the route with the shortest total distance and output that. I believe this means I will need an iterative macro within an iterative macro. I am simply not familiar enough with how to program this in Alteryx, and I would be very appreciative for any assistance that you can offer.

For your problem, all you need to do is substitute in your logic into the "processing" section. If your processing is excruciatingly complex, you could even make that it's own simple "worker" macro, thus turning your iterative macro into more of a "loop controller" and nothing more.

And... as it happens, your "excruciatingly complex" "worker macro could even contain another iterative macro inside it... and if desired that embedded iterative macro could be another "loop controller" that contains another "worker".

Next thing you know, you're doing OOP (object oriented programming) using Alteryx: you just draw the skeleton of the overall process. Make sure that processing is flowing as you desire. Once it is, start to add the heavy lifting that does the actual work.

This is amazing! It's almost exactly what I was looking for. Only way to get better would be to get an exact distance by route like with a google maps api, but I imagine that would be waaaay to complex. But this, it just worked! I'm amazed! Thank you so much for sharing.

I walked into the kitchen and there they were along with a giant, silver vacuum sweeper. It surprised me because, years ago, a similar pesky salesman constantly called on us until Randy declared he was done.

Randy finally interrupted Robert to introduce me. Robert awkwardly turned, looked above my head, then turned back to his product, carefully picking up right where he left off. I listened as Robert methodically pointed out that this vacuum was not only a vacuum sweeper, but also a vacuum cleaner, polisher and rug shampooer.

I recently went to a garage to ask about different cars and offers, the salesman took some details; phone and email, when leaving I said to him I would be in touch if I wanted to proceed. He called me off the garage's phone and emailed me off their work email but I have been busy with work so missed the call and forgot to email back. I received a text from an unknown number asking if I still wanted the car, I replied asking who it was to which he replied: "it's X from Windsor's lol".

To say I'm furious he got my personal details from their system to text me off his personal phone is an understatement, I just want to know if this is a breach in GDPR or anything like that. Receiving calls and emails from the garage are fine because that is their work environment but when someone goes onto that system to get my information and use it this way is unacceptable to me.

I am looking to take this further and would just like to know my options here because who knows how many other people he has done this to, I have been in touch with his manager but got the feeling he thought X was doing an outstanding job by hounding me in his personal time.

EDIT: This question was purely to get some feedback and different points of view, I have/had no intention of suing the garage or pursuing that kind of legal action. I wanted to see which arguments I could raise when taking this up with the garage's head office, for me it is the principal of privacy and being a nuisance rather than any personal/legal damages. I feel some people may think that I am trying to make a claim, this is not the case so I just wanted to clear that up.

Many companies allow employees to use their personal devices for work purposes (BYOD). When the data controller allows this and takes appropriate safety measures, everything is perfectly fine. The company still has to make sure that the data is only processed for legal purses and deleted afterwards.

A data breach has occurred when the security measures were insufficient and your data was deleted or disclosed without authorization. Your scenario would only be a breach if the company did not have a BYOD policy and the salesman used their personal phone, and arguably then only if that device is also breached. However, do not discount the alternatives:

Note that all of these alternatives are more effort than they are likely worth. In particular, the garage can always correct the problem, e.g. by getting your contact info deleted from the personal device or by creating a retroactive BYOD policy.

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I believe there are few things in life that will return greater "knowledge-for-money" (as I call it) than books. So I would like to repay the authors who imparted this knowledge in my very small way by posting reviews of some of the most inspirational, thought-provoking or simply good books that I have read.

I believe that the title does not do the book any justice as it is much more a spiritual journey on how to maximise your potential than a book about sales. The author himself had quite an eventful life; he was a former World War 2 bombardier turned insurance salesman turned best-selling author and speaker.

The beauty of the book is that it is not an "instructional" self-help read but it is written as a Paulo Coelho-style parable (before Paulo Coelho even started writing). A slight negative is that this style may seem "airy-fairy" to some who would prefer a more direct, practical approach.

When the trader was himself a young man of Hafid's age, he was given ten scrolls by an old rich man, with a specific order to guard them with his life and to pass them on only before he died. Therefore, by passing these secret scrolls to Hafid, the secrets to success are preserved for another generation.

If there is one silver lining from these sad, dystopian times we are living, it is the fact that we are being handed an opportunity for self-introspection; one which hardly ever comes along throughout our "normal", hurried lives. In my view, The Greatest Salesman in the World is the ideal antidote to a world living in lockdown. It will not grant you ready-made solutions, but it may just plant a seed of positivity to get you started on the long and winding journey to success.

The plural of salesman is salesmen. The equivalent term for a woman is saleswoman. Both terms are still commonly used, but salesperson and sales rep (or sales representative) are often used in their place.

A salesman can sell directly to customers or to other businesses or organizations. Sometimes, salesmen sell things in person, such as at a retail store or dealership. They also commonly sell things over the phone or by communicating with people online. In the past, it was common for some salesmen to travel door-to-door to make sales to people at home, leading to the term door-to-door salesman.

Still, a lot of people try to avoid salesmen when shopping due to feeling pressured. Relatedly, the term used car salesman is sometimes used in a figurative way to refer to someone considered a smooth-talking swindler.

Linda was a client while working at a large new and pre-owned dealership selling cars. Linda and I connected right away. She liked my no pressure approach and I could tell she trusted me. Actually, she told me I reminded her of her son who passed away.

The problem was that the white SUV we had in stock was way out of her price range and I needed a sale YESTERDAY. You see, it was the end of the month and I needed one more sale to make a pretty substantial bonus.

It was the exact monthly payment she wanted to pay. I knew this because I had already asked her. Never tell a car salesman what you want to pay unless you have done your research. Linda had not done her research. I was the first dealership she stopped at.

True, she looked online and knew what she wanted but if you have shopped online you know it takes a PhD to decipher the true cost of these new vehicles. The many different numbers make it so only seasoned car salesman know.

MSRP, Sale Price, Financing rates, Financing terms, Warranties, Lease rates, Residual values, Different rebates for different people, Call for price advertisements, Ads on mystery vehicles no longer available, Crazy low payment ads with small print no one can read.

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To start, I was hired and sent to take a drug test. I got a phone call a couple of days later, and the sales manager said I passed the drug test and should report to the dealership for training on Tuesday. That was next Tuesday, ten days from the day I got the call. I showed up on time, and it was time for car sales training. My first day as a car salesman has yet to start, but I wanted to give you some background.

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