💪🏼 How Sales Managers and Salespeople Can Thrive in 2025

📬 Friday, January 10, 2025

TGIF! Alright, no more excuses. The holidays are in the rearview mirror, and it's time to get new 𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗦 and revenues jammin’! 🎸 Without blinking, the first month of your Q1 will be half over and in the same rearview mirror by next Friday. Are your teams still slothing 🦥 into the new year, or is there some fire 🔥 in the belly?

Here’s what you missed this week while you were out selling and growing your business:

1) Fiserv Small Business Index for December 2024: Retail and Services Lead as Small Business Finishes on Upswing 📈

Fiserv Small Business Index showed strong performance in December 2024, rising three points to 146. Small business sales grew +4.9% year-over-year and +2.0% month-over-month, with retail and services leading the…Read more here. 👈🏼

📎 Sales Tip(s) of The Week:

𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗦 is easy when:

You’re closing deals, booking new meetings, and feeling progress.

𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗦 is hard when:

You’re not doing any of those things.

The answer?

Have consistent activity, and your outputs will change to positive outcomes.

Did you sign up for a new gym membership for 2025? Statistics say you’ll stop going by February 11th, or 43-44 days into the new year.

When you’re looking for success in 𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗦 and revenue growth, the reps and organizations that grow are the ones that find a sweet spot of continuous activity.

Just like working out … you can’t expect to feel better, look better, and sleep better by going to the gym for 43-44 days each new year.

The path to revenue growth success is through consistent and strategic activities that meet the benchmarks you set (or those set for you) for your organization.

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2) 2024 State of Fractional Sales Leadership Report Highlights Rapid Growth and Emerging Industry Trends 🔖

As companies increasingly prioritize scalable and cost-effective solutions, fractional sales leadership emerges as an essential model. From revitalizing go-to-market strategies to driving revenue growth, fractional sales leaders deliver critical expertise without the…Read more here. 👈🏼

3) How Sales Managers and Salespeople Can Thrive in 2025 💪🏼

Here are several strategies to help you thrive in 2025 by embracing innovation, strengthening customer relationships, and continuously…Read more here. 👈🏼

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The release of our inaugural publication, the “2025 selling blueprint,” plus all of our prospecting tools, strategic sales, and marketing-related documents will be available for download.

📊 Weekly Financial Forecast:

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted for the 9th consecutive month in December, the 25th time in the last 26 months.

“U.S. manufacturing activity contracted again in December, but at a slower rate compared to November. Demand showed signs of improving, while output stabilized and inputs stayed accommodative,” stated Timothy R. Fiore, CPSM, C.P.M., Chair of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee.

🦉 Who Is Sales Homie?

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Fractional Sales Leadership, placing a seasoned Sales executive at any level (Manager, Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer) into your department. Additionally, we’ve built our Sales Leader Pro for Small Businesses program that helps organizations under $2M in annualized revenue scale their sales strategies to increase business revenues and profits.

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