Cookie Sales - How Can I Help My Daughter?

Sign and return all permission slips timely.  This means as SOON AS POSSIBLE [just take a minute once you get it to sign & give it back! Nothing to forget!].  Your daughter will not get her cookie packet until we have your permission slip.

Go online with your daughter to sign the Internet Safety Pledge.

Start selling January 26th!

Provide transportation for order taking, delivery, to booth sales.  You must go with her if selling door-to-door.  Remind your daughter to wear her Girl Scout Vest, Sash, Tunic or pins when selling.

Visit this site for some print outs & clip art: http://www.gs-top.org/art-gallery-cookie-sales.  They have some clip art that will work for your Facebook cover or profile picture.

Help her network with your family & friends, use Skype or Facetime for far away folks. Help her arrange to sell cookies at your work, place of worship, other locations where you may be able to take pre-orders.  Share your business expertise and/or contacts and help link the Girl Scout Cookie Program with the wider business world.

Offer to be supervising adult at our booth sales!  Booth sales can start March 16!

Help her gather all pre-sale materials and turn into our Troop no later than February 11 (last day of pre-sales is February 10)

Help her develop her sales pitch.  Review the materials together.  Pretend to be a customer.  Ask her questions.  Guide her to set practical and useful goals.  Listen to her describe her goals.  Have fun with her! 

When the cookies arrive, help your daughter sort her cookies for delivery.  Help her write Thank you notes -- we will also help with this.  On the link above, there are options for some Thank You print outs/receipts.  Be sure your daughter signs the thank you cards herself (even if you have to help write the rest.  Never underestimate the power of that signature!)

 

NEVER do things for your Girl Scout that she can do for herself!

Remember that the Girl Scout Cookie Program is a part of the Girl Scout Leadership experience, which is girl-driven.  Let your Girl Scout take the lead in selling cookies and reaching goals, guiding her as necessary.  Your encouragement, coaching and guidance will be key ingredients to a successful Cookie Program experience for her.  As our girls progress from Daisies and Brownies, we will need to do less and less to help them if we get them started right!