How to Sell More Girl Scout Cookies

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You have the basics down, but there's more to selling Girl Scout cookies than meets the eye. Here are some easy ways to increase revenue.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A parent or guardian
Cookies
A Girl Scout uniform
A cookie order form
An enterprising spirit
Other Girl Scouts
A booth

Warning: Always have a parent or guardian present, only go door-to-door during the day, and never enter a stranger's house or car.

Step 1: Know your product

Get familiar with the different types of cookies—their names, flavors, and basic ingredients. Try them for yourself so you know what each one tastes like, and be sure to bone up on newly released varieties.

Tip: Since many people have food allergies, find out which cookies contain nuts, gluten, dairy products, and other common allergens.

Step 2: Make nice

When approaching potential buyers, introduce yourself, make eye contact, and smile. Ask about their cookie preferences, and suggest other varieties they might enjoy. Don't forget to wear your uniform proudly.

Tip: People like to know their money is going to a good cause. Go into specifics, explaining how cookie sales will fund your troop's activities and projects over the coming year.

Step 3: Location, location, location

Hawk your wares in high-traffic areas like schools, shopping centers, festivals, retirement communities, and offices. Be sure to get permission from whoever's in charge before claiming your turf.

Step 4: Maintain contacts

If you're a sales veteran, call, visit, or email customers who have ordered from you in the past. Keep a written record of everyone's name, phone number, email, and favorite cookie variety.

Step 5: Work together

Join forces with other Girl Scouts and their parents to sell from a booth. Hanging out with friends is more fun than going solo, and you'll be able to pool your resources to ramp up sales.

Tip: Teamwork's great, but don't let anyone horn in on your core customer base.

Step 6: Go big

Why sell individual boxes when you can sell whole cases at once? Talk to local business owners about buying cookies in bulk to use as employee incentives or customer gifts.

Step 7: Get a gimmick

Work with your troop to coin cool slogans, create posters using them, and even compose cookie jingles to sing while you sell.

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[brazilianEYEreportU]

step 8: find slave children in thailand

step 9: open up cookie manufacturing plant

step 10: ?????

step 11: profit

[LadyLoraella]

She was 15?? I thought girl scouts were like, 8.

[Mrskrissyhoward1]

I enjoyed this video and so did my girl scouts. I do not appreciate the bad comments about this video. I think they did an excelent job at making it. Thank You!

[LadyLoraella]

@Girlscoutcookies1485 Thank you :) Here in the Netherlands, we do have scouting clubs, but it's boys and girls mixed together and from what I hear, it's really different than in the USA.

[Girlscoutcookies1485]

@LadyLoraella Girl Scouts can even be Adults! there are Daisys, Brownies, Jouniors, Cadettes, Ambassators and leaders! :)

[Nivag38]

Optional:

Big boobs

[oOHurricaneHammyOo]

Ok I'm a girl scout, and I already knew ALL of this. It's not optional to have a booth and other girl scouts, its almost required. (You don't need other girls) And your not allowed to go door-to-door any way. Also, it doesn't help, after the first two or three weeks, you're stuck with cases and cases of cookies and no one will buy.

[Moesdays]

How to sell every single cookies and have all THIER money....?.!.???.????!?????!!!­.!!!!!!!!!!.! Buy a fukin AK-47 and say "bitch GIMMI ALL YO MONEY AND LET ME SLAP DAT ASS

[joboytheswede]

Could somebody watching this send me a step by step guide about selling comics,books,calendars and movies if you're a boy?

[KwertyKwerts]

How to sell more girl scout cookies: Buy a gun.

[jbassoon13]

Cookies > Popcorn

[KentuckyClementine]

Almost every type of Girl Scout cookie contains palm oil, which is commonly harvested through the clearing and burning of irreplaceable tropical rainforests.

This method harms the global ecosytem, endangers local indigenous populations, and threatens the survival of orangutans, humankind's closest relative.