Girl Scout Cookies for Girls
COOKIE SALES TIPS THAT WORK!
- Know your product – be able to list each cookie and know something about each one.
- Wear your uniform – girls may not think that it’s important, but adults who buy the cookies DO like to see the girls in uniform.
- Practice selling (role playing) at your meeting. Come up with your own sales pitch.
- Smile, remember your manners, say please and thank you.
- Contact your customers from last year, especially those that bought a lot of boxes and let them know that the cookie sale is beginning January 8th this year and would they like to place an order.
- Always have an order form and a pen with you, you never know when you might see someone who wants to place an order.
- Talk about your troop and/or personal goal when selling. Practice a one minute speech including your first name, your troop and what you’re planning on doing with the money, i.e. "Hi, I’m Kristin with troop #1325, how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies would you like to buy to help my troop take a trip to Savannah, Ga."
- Start selling right away on the first day of the sale if possible. Other girls will quickly visit your neighbors, so plan on going out on January 7th !
- Ask everyone that you know – teacher, coach, dance instructor, doctor, dentist, mailman, clergy, local businesses and stores.
- Contact local fraternal and military organizations, i.e. VFW, American Legion, Masons, and Knights of Columbus, etc. Perhaps they can host a booth sale or purchase cookies for Operation Cookie.
- Have a booth sale – it’s fun, easy and you sell lots of cookies!
- Do a Walk About sale – bring the cookies with you and go in a group!
