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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Door to door sales don't work - nobody answers the door anymore (including me) and it's dark at 5 this time of year. 
But, I'm also opting out of digital sales this year because the website bombards my email contacts with multiple messages that I have no control over. And the digital platform is not really something DD10 can manage herself anyway, as she doesn't have an email address.

So, just booth sales for us.[/quote]

Yea, I frankly don't have the energy to set up digital sales this year, and you can't throw a cookie in our neighborhood without hitting a Girl Scout.  Shipping costs are ridiculous, and I really don't want to drive an hour one way to drop some cookies off to well-meaning friends who want to support our daughter.

Also, this is just a crappy time of year to be starting this.  We're all exhausted from the holidays, and it's too cold to be enthusiastic about [b] door to door or booth sales. [/b]

Pre-covid, when she was a Daisy, I took her into my office to directly make a sale to one person who asked to buy cookies.  She had her uniform on, and a few other people approached us to buy cookies.   That was cute when she was 5, not so much when she's 10.   We were also in a different, smaller neighborhood and she and the other two Girl Scouts in the neighborhood went around to all the people without kids and did reasonably well with sales.

I'm going to talk to her about it, and if she wants to sell in addition to the booth, she'll have to go door to door, might have her post on social media, but only if she sets up everything.

Hopefully she's matured enough to not be competitive about it-- but there are 40-something troop moms who aren't mature enough to not be competitive...
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