On the day of the sale, these tips will help keep everyone safe:
Ensure that you have adequate space at the booth (table, products, and girls) to allow safe passage by
pedestrians, bikes, and cars.
Plan to have at least two adults and one girl at the booth at all times. From time to time, volunteers
might want to take breaks or will have to accompany young girls to the bathroom, so make sure to have
a few extra adults on hand.
Girls make all sales, except in cases where adults are helping Daisies handle money.
Respect the surrounding businesses by making sure your booth isn’t blocking a store entrance or exit.
Attract customers with colorful signs. Remind girls to be polite and to have their sales pitch ready for
interested shoppers.
Be especially careful with the money box; make sure it’s under adult supervision and out of public sight.
Arrange for cash to be removed from the site periodically. When you do travel with money, have
someone accompany you to your vehicle and/or the bank.
Report any suspicious people in the area to local security.
If someone takes money or cookies from your booth, do not attempt to physically recover the stolen items and
do not allow the girls to do so. Instead, get a good description of the offender(s), call 911, and alert local security
(if applicable). Make sure girls know what to do in case of theft. Report any incidents to your local council
according to its guidelines.
Refer to the Appendix: GSWPA Procedures/Forms for the following:
Accident/Incident Reporting Procedure-page 156
Accident/Incident Report Form-157
Girls are texting, calling, emailing, Tweeting, and Facebooking—and those are all effective ways that girls 13 and
older can promote cookie and other product sales. The following sections detail how girls can use electronic
marketing, social media, and group websites to gather sale commitments from family, friends, and previous
customers. But first, please keep in mind that girls:
Can market to and collect indications of interest from customers within their councils’ zip codes. Refer
prospects that come from outside council jurisdiction to the council finder at www.girlscoutcookies.org.
Family members are the exception to this rule.
Cannot have customers pay online (such as through a shopping cart function on a website the girls
create). Girl Scout magazine subscriptions, nut and candy product sales and the Digital Cookie Program
are the exceptions to this rule and use the MagNut (Nut-E) and Cookie (eBudde) companies provided
site.
Must sign the Girl Scout Internet Safety Pledge (available at
http://www.girlscouts.org/help/internet_safety_pledge.asp) before doing any online activities, and all
online activities must be under the supervision of adults.
Cannot expose their own or any other girl’s email address, physical address, or phone number to the
public. When writing e-mail messages or online announcements, girls should sign with their first name
only, along with their group number or name and their council name.
For girls in fifth grade and above, have your group visit Let Me Know, a site addressing Internet safety for teens
and tweens. Girls can even earn an online award for completing activities on this site.
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