We at Efficio wish you and yours a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year!
All female band performing at a New Year's celebration, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1969. Roy Erickson, photographer. Division of Library & Information Services, Florida Department of State.

Make sure there's nothing fishy about what you say you and your media sales organization can deliver.
Workers at the Goldish Fish Company in Duluth, Minnesota, going out on delivery, c.1920. Jewish HIstorical Society of the Upper Midwest.

If you're a media sales manager, learn how to successfully delegate so your desk won't look like this!
Allan Roth, 1954. Photo by Wm. C. Greene. Library of Congress.

Do you help your sales team move the ball down the field?
A-Day Game football scrimmage for University of Alabama, with coach Nick Saban analyzing every move. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2010. The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

The leader of a successful organization coaches individual members of the team to help them reach their potential.
Buffalo team, International League, 1915. Bain News Service, publisher. Library of Congress.

If you're a New Schooler, bring your A game, but appreciate the experience of veteran sellers.
The first day at school, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, 1921. Photo by L.W. Hine. Library of Congress.

Be ready to respond when the alarms go off!
Group of firemen, c.1866. Library of Congress.

Delivering information to corporate about projected pending is serious business, but it doesn't have to make you and your team miserable.
Radio station WPTF meeting at the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1941. State Archives of North Carolina.

Have a Christmas in July sales meeting to brainstorm ideas for a holiday promotion!
Santa Claus at the beach, Panama City Beach, Florida, 1956. Francis P. Johnson, photographer. State Library and Archives of Florida.

Migrant father and daughter near Harlingen, Texas, 1939. Russell Lee, photographer. Library of Congress.