Wednesday, February 17, 2010

cookie booth sales - take ONE.

Thank god for Cookie MOMS! This is a serious, strenuous, time consuming and confusing job! Tiffany has some help along the way from cookie elves on the phone... aka Carol Fronk and other past cookie moms, but Tiffany makes it look pretty effortless. So - another first for our troop! COOKIE BOOTHS! They told us o prepare to sell 200 boxes of cookies in a 3 hour shift. We made some fancy signs, we hung some signs on cars around the parking lot and we set up shop. We had 3 girls per shirt (the 3 hour shift was split into 2 shifts) We also have 5 helping parents for each shift and everyone was needed! We were so busy there were numerous times there was a line - and numerous times we couldn't keep the thin mints on the table. 3 hours later and we knew we had done well but we didn't know HOW well. Tiffanny had a starting number of how many boxes she brought - so now she just needed to count the remaining. (a tally sheet was too hard to keep up with) Tiffany called a few hours later to say we sold 433 boxes! That is a cookie credit of 72 boxes per girl. John also figured that was an average of 2.1 boxes of cookies sold - each minute of the sale. We have 2 more booths coming up this weekend and I hope we have equal success! Walmart may be tough. To stand outside in the elements (it is suppose to be 35 degrees) and also there are 2 doors for traffic and many other variables. THANKS GIRLS for all your help selling!!! You all did a great job, and I heard many people ask the questions we had practiced and i was very impressed! Good Luck to the rounds of girls going this weekend. I hope to get photos to post of each booth!

One of my many signs (i have them for the Lowes and Walmart location next weekend)

Mia's grandma Hooie came to help SELL!

We had many lines that included guys and flowers.


arent they CUTE!

The day WAS a blur!

many carts of empty boxes to finish the shift/the day

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