This year was our best ever. We grossed over $13,000 in cookie sales. Over 3300 boxes of cookies. Special thanks to our girls and parents for such a great season.
This year our goal was to raise enough money to donate 4 cases of cookies, that's 48 boxes, to our military troops through the "Taste of Home" program. We were successful in this mission with the help of our local community. We raised enough for 3 cases just in donations alone, the remainder case we donated from our troops profit. We were excited to inform our customers of our goal and they were excited to help! It was an awesome experience.
The girls learned so much, from fluency in their 4 multiplication facts to the confidence to communicate with customers. Click here to check out the benefits from the official cookie program website. http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/the_five_skills.asp
Our girls basically set up and run their own booths, with little help from parents.They employ sales techniques such as direct and confident interaction with their customers, knowing answers to all of their products and making up catchy cookie songs and slogans. (Pulling out the cuteness)
We also encourage our girls to thank every customer. Even if it's a Thank you anyway (when a customer says no) or Thank you for supporting girl scouts (when a customer says they have already purchased from another troop).
We have a meeting prior to cookie season and set up mock cookie booths. The girls use cut outs of cookie boxes as their product and real money to role play with. (They love using real money!) We separate them into groups of about 4 and they take turns being the customer and seller. At this meeting we create a few poster size signs that draw attention to our booth and thanks our customers. The girls have a lot of fun with glitter and glue decorating the signs. They all sign their names as a personal thank you.
Our girls earned the "Meet my Customer's badge" by role playing, creating thank you cards for their personal customers and rehearsing commonly asked questions from our customers. These questions include:
How much are they?
What is your favorite cookie?
What are you planning to do with the money you raise?
How long have you been a girl scout?
What is the best selling flavor?
We have customers that like to just talk about when they were girl scouts or family members of theirs were girl scouts and our girls need to have the communication skills to engage in a meaningful conversation with them. And they do, they're amazing! Once they have the knowledge to be confident in themselves and their product they shine!
The girls learned so much, from fluency in their 4 multiplication facts to the confidence to communicate with customers. Click here to check out the benefits from the official cookie program website. http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/the_five_skills.asp
Our girls basically set up and run their own booths, with little help from parents.They employ sales techniques such as direct and confident interaction with their customers, knowing answers to all of their products and making up catchy cookie songs and slogans. (Pulling out the cuteness)
We also encourage our girls to thank every customer. Even if it's a Thank you anyway (when a customer says no) or Thank you for supporting girl scouts (when a customer says they have already purchased from another troop).
We have a meeting prior to cookie season and set up mock cookie booths. The girls use cut outs of cookie boxes as their product and real money to role play with. (They love using real money!) We separate them into groups of about 4 and they take turns being the customer and seller. At this meeting we create a few poster size signs that draw attention to our booth and thanks our customers. The girls have a lot of fun with glitter and glue decorating the signs. They all sign their names as a personal thank you.
Our girls earned the "Meet my Customer's badge" by role playing, creating thank you cards for their personal customers and rehearsing commonly asked questions from our customers. These questions include:
How much are they?
What is your favorite cookie?
What are you planning to do with the money you raise?
How long have you been a girl scout?
What is the best selling flavor?
We have customers that like to just talk about when they were girl scouts or family members of theirs were girl scouts and our girls need to have the communication skills to engage in a meaningful conversation with them. And they do, they're amazing! Once they have the knowledge to be confident in themselves and their product they shine!