Girl Scout Cookie Season is Here!

Cookie order taking has officially started! Now is a great time to use Cookie Club to send emails to potential cookie customers (especially if you're out of town, or lots of your regular contacts are still out of town).

Cookie Club customers purchase an average of 2 boxes more per ask than other customers - so flex those fingers and log in to the Cookie Club! (Make sure your cookie permission slip is on file with your troop and your troop has set up girls in Cookie Club in order to access.)

And don’t despair if you are ready to sell Girl Scout cookies and your troop doesn't have order cards out yet - there is one extra week of order taking this year! The #1 reason that most people give for not buying Girl Scout cookies is that they were never asked, so use this time to plan out your cookie contact strategies!

Coming Up this Weekend

The premiere of “Girl Scout Cookie Wonderland” is this Saturday, January 11! It’s a fun – and easy – way to inspire and teach girls about the Girl Scout Cookie Program. This magical, behind-the-scenes bakery tour is the must-see show of the season.

During the show, each girl will be invited to complete her own Recipe for Success, a business plan for the Cookie Season. This simple tool will help girls develop skills they will take with them for life.

All you really need are about 50 minutes and an Internet connection. Starting January 11, 2014, you will find Cookie Wonderland on the home page of littlebrowniebakers.com. Can’t watch it this weekend? No problem! Watch later with your family at home or together with your troop at your next troop gathering. Enjoy the show!

What can a cookie do? Troop Leader Angie Lanter tells us.

Today's post comes to us from Angie Lanter, a Girl Scout Troop Leader from Forest Grove Troop 41283.

Angie's story: I was so happy to present my Girl Scout troop with possibly the most memorable gift they could receive. Last year during Girl Scout Cookie sales, our troop collected boxes of cookies to be sent overseas to military troops. 

The girls collected 16 cases worth of cookies, and they were sent to the Marines, Navy, Army and Air Force Troops stationed in various places around the world. Some of the cookies were received by the 101st Airborne Regiment, stationed in Afghanistan. They were so appreciative of the kindness and hard work by the girls to put forth the time and effort to collect boxes of cookies and send them, along with letters and hand drawn photos, giving them a little bit of home. 

In October I presented my girls with a U.S. Flag, which was flown on a combat mission in Afghanistan. The flag flew in a Chinook CH-47 Helicopter. To see the girls holding the flag - running their small hands over the stitching, admiring it, soaking in what it all meant and listening as I read the letter praising them for their generosity, and support, and praising them as true patriots - brought tears to my eyes. 

I am so very proud of the girls, and all their hard work to collect as many boxes of cookies as they did. I know a lot of people think that the girls sell the cookies just to get the prizes, or to earn money for camp or field trips. But this group of girls did this for the right reason. They worked so hard at booth sales, and we now will have a flag, certificate and letter to put on display at our booth sales this year so that customers can see that yes, the cookies did go to the troops, and they can see just how much this really means to our military service personnel. 

As I type this and look at the flag, re-read the letter and the certificate that came with it........makes me not only proud to be an american, but proud to be part of a great organization such as Girl Scouts.