girl scout Cookie® program : Booth Sales
Booth Sale Information for Leaders & Troop Cookie Managers
Booth Sale Information for Parents
Booth Sale Information for Girls
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BOOTH SALES! JUST FOR PARENTS
What is a Booth Sale?
Girls sell cookies directly to the public with proper supervision. Booth sales are a supplement to the regular cookie order taking period to help your Troop achieve its goals. Booth sales are a great way to earn additional funds for Troop activities, spend some time with your Troop, boost the girls' cookie count, and make lots of people happy. Proper planning will ensure a successful and fun booth sale.
How do Booth Sales benefit my daughter?
While selling Girl Scout Cookies®, your daughter learns successful business methods and practical entrepreneurial skills. These skills include:
- Leadership Development
- Ethical Decision-Making
- Presentation Skills
- Working as Part of a Team
- Setting Goals
- Developing Plans for Reaching those Goals
- Interpersonal Communication
- Customer Service
- Financial Literacy
- Money Management
How do the sales get divided within the Troop?
The number of boxes sold among the girls who attended the sale is evenly divided. This amount will be added to their individual sales. This may help your daughter achieve higher cookie incentives and higher cookie credits.
What can I do to help?
First, you can read the “Cookie Booth Etiquette” Rules and with your child and help her understand them so she can put them into action. Then sign the “Cookie Booth Behavior Contract.” You can also help your practice her communication skills. Together, you can role-play different situations of cookie selling. Pretend you are the customer and have her ask you to buy a box of Girl Scout Cookies®. What will she say? What if you say you are on a diet? What if you don’t like Girl Scout Cookies®? Role-playing these situations will help boost her confidence when it comes to the real cookie selling. It is also important to have adults present at booth sales to insure the safety of the girls. But it is also important that adults don’t take over. Girls learn by doing! Adults are there to provide support—help them understand their role so girls can get the most of their Cookie Booth experience.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BOOTH SALES! FOR GIRLS
Tips for Booth Sales
Decorate your booth! Heavily decorated booths that attract the customer’s attention will make people smile and notice the Troop’s efforts. Use Girl Scout tablecloths & Cookie Costumes (available for loan through our Resource Room), and other materials.
Be sure to post the Girl Scout logo at your booth. The logo should be up front and visible.
Set up a display board showing your Troop’s goals. People like to know what they are helping your Troop to do! You might create display boards that talk about healthy eating habits or what girls in the Troop like about Girl Scouting.
Provide samples of cookies for your customers to try.Sure to be a big hit — especially when introducing new cookies like the Thank U Berry Munch.
Sell gift baskets with Girl Scout Cookies® in them.Girls can place cookies and other items of choice in baskets and sell the baskets as gift items.
Make a Girl Scout Cookie® dessert and offer free samples. Sell boxes of the cookie in the dessert with the recipe attached. These “Mint Brownies” were made with Thin Mints.See “Cookie Q” cards for recipe ideas.
Include a price list. Things can get confusing when selling cookies to multiple customers. To make things easier create a list stating prices of multiple boxes. For example, 1 box costs $3.50, 2 boxes cost $7.00 and so on. Put it in plain sight so yourcustomers can see it too.
Advertise. Write catchy slogans like “Got Girl Scout Cookies?” or “Ask me
about Girl Scout Cookies®” on a t-shirt or make a button to wear at booth sales
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