How to Sell Girl Scout Cookies at a Non-Profit Workplace
Selling Girl Scout cookies is a delicious and rewarding experience that can teach young girls self-esteem, entrepreneurship and business sense. Non-profit workplaces are just one place to sell cookies. Utilize the Girl Scout troop's involvement in the community and their volunteer service to highlight their non-profit sensibilities. Get innovative and think beyond just the workplace and go to the web and beyond for cookie sales.
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Contact the non-profit and ask permission to sell the cookies. Most non-profits will not allow outside solicitors or any sales that could be a conflict of interest to the workplace. However, Girl Scouts of the USA are also a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Send the non-profit you wish to sell cookies at a pamphlet on Girl Scouts to highlight their volunteer and non-profit work.
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Set up a table in a break-room or office kitchen with pamphlets and flyers discussing the Girl Scout Cookie Program. Display pictures of the girl scout troops and post information on their financial goals and work in the community. Leave a sign-up form to order the cookies or a sign detailing how and where they can be purchased.
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Inquire if there is an email newsletter at the non-profit. Ask for the Girl Scout Cookie Program to be included with a note from the girls in the troop and their goals. Leave instructions, an email address, and a link about how the non-profit employees can get in touch about purchasing the cookies. Add an appetizing picture of the Girl Scout cookies to entice sales.
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Use the non-profit's social networking presence to sell the cookies. Ask to post a video on the girls selling cookies on the company's Facebook Fan Page with instructions on how to buy the treats. Get a conversation going by asking what the employees and their Facebook fans favorite cookies are. Offer to give away a free box as a special promotion.
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Ask if the non-profit offers company gifts to clients or coworkers. Suggest buying the cookies and sending out as a special gift. Create a brochure on how the sale of cookies supports the Girl Scout troop. Add an order or contact form so the recipients can purchase additional cookies for themselves, friends or family.
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Inquire about upcoming seminars, workshops, day-long meetings, or company outings at the non-profit. Sell Girl Scout cookies as a treat to employees participating in the event. Give away boxes of cookies as prizes for team-building activities. Wrap the boxes in order forms to encourage additional sales.
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Tips & Warnings
Stay positive and communicate all of your sale strategies with the non-profit before setting up an in-office campaign.
Always clear your ideas and cookie sale plans with the non-profit in advance.
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