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Step 1
Ask friends and relatives to buy cookies. Either your child can ask or you as the parent can get involved taking the order form to work to sell.
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Step 2
Preorder extra cookies for last minute sales, for those people you forgot to ask, and people who will come back for more within hours of eating their last box.
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Step 3
Order enough cookies to sell at a "booth." The scouting troop usually has a recommended number of boxes to sell. Order extra boxes in varieties that are popular in your area.
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Step 4
Contact your local discount or grocery store to ask about a good date and time to sell cookies outside the front door of the retail store. Wal-Mart usually matches the boxes sold with denotations to the troop and will usually allow a two-hour time slot. Call to confirm this well in advance of the date you want to see there. A grocery store will usually ask for a liability waiver.
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Step 5
Find a local craft fair or exhibit and sign up for a booth. It may cost a little extra money, but crowds will buy more in the long run, making the booth fee worth the cost.
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Step 6
Give away free samples. You need to get the people closer to your booth. Draw them in with free samples even if they already know what a scout cookie tastes like.
Comments
MaestroGA said
on 2/13/2009 I don't sell girl scout cookies, yet if I did these ideas are fantastic. I'm using these ideas for a different industry, yet if I ever interview a woman who used to sell cookies in these ways, she is a step ahead of the curve.