Rock your sale

Rock your season with an awesome plan

Want a great Girl Scout Cookie Season? Make a plan. Then make it happen. Here are the four basic parts of the season — along with resources to help you out. 

1. Plan to rock it

• Set your goals
• Plan your Cookie Season

Tools that can help:

• Goal Action Planner – Determine the cost of your goals (Excel Doc - English; Excel Doc - Spanish)
• Personal Task Planner – Make a to-do list
• Customizable Cookie Calendar – Map out what to do based upon initial order dates

Note: These tools were created before the outbreak of COVID-19 in the U.S. and have not been updated for the 2020-2021 Girl Scout Cookie Season.

2. Take orders. Lots of them.

• Contact customers from previous year’s order card
• Contact family and friends
• Contact local businesses for sales – suggest they buy by the case
• Send out text messages to everyone you know
• Make use of Facebook and other social media

Tools that can help:

• Customer Profile – Keep track of your customers
• eCards  - Send out eCards to everyone you know (All Gone: gif, jpg, swf) (Cookie Time: gif, jpg, swf) (Reach Goal: gif, jpg, swf)
• Business Card template - Make business cards to exchange or include with deliveries:  (English: BC Dots.doc; BC Dots.pdf; BC Plaid.doc; BC Plaid.pdf; BC Swirls.doc; BC Swirls.pdf; BC Stripes.doc; BC Stripes.pdf; MCS CallingCard.doc; MCS CallingCard.pdf.  Spanish: BC Dots SPA.doc; BC Dots SPA.pdf; MCS CallingCard SPA.doc; MCS CallingCard SPA.pdf)
• Create presentations for organizations ( PowerPoint template) 

Note: These tools were created before the outbreak of COVID-19 in the U.S. and have not been updated for the 2020-2021 Girl Scout Cookie Season.

3. Go another round

• If your council permits post-initial order taking, continue to take orders after the ordering deadline
• Carry your order card with you at all times

4. Be proactive

• Call customers back two weeks before the sale ends to ask for additional orders
• Send eCards reminding customers it’s their last chance to buy until next year  (All Gone: gif, jpg, swf) (Cookie Time: gif, jpg, swf) (Reach Goal: gif, jpg, swf)

Tools that can help:

• Cookie Car Magnets – Make your cookie booth mobile "Cookie" letters;"Mobile" letters
• Thank You Notes – Print out thank you notes using the templates provided (Car: English, Spanish) (Dots: English, Spanish) (Plaid: English, Spanish)  (PopArt:  English, Spanish) (Stripes: English, Spanish) (Swirls: English, Spanish) (My Cookie Store 1: English, Spanish) (My Cookie Store 2: English, Spanish)  (My Cookie Store 3: English, Spanish)  (My Cookie Store 4: English)

Note: These tools were created before the outbreak of COVID-19 in the U.S. and have not been updated for the 2020-2021 Girl Scout Cookie Season. 

 

Looking for more tools to rock your season?

Our Climb With Courage Toolkit has virtual meeting backgrounds, social media shareables and more! Volunteers can assist cookie entrepreneurs in finding resources to help you reach goals. View Toolkit.