Fall Product Sale Program

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	PRODUCT SALES PROGRAMING GOAL SETTING ACTIVITIES ONLINE LEARNING ACTIVITIES WHAT ARE THE PRODUCTS HOW DOES IT WORK QSP/NUT ONLINE PROGRAM TROOP PROCEEDS TROOP RESOURCES FALL PRODUCT TIMELINE
2012 Fall Product Sale Program Fall Product Troop Training

The Fall Product Sale is a council-sponsored program that combines educational activities with money earning opportunities for the troops. The 2012 theme is “What Can a Girl Do? Get Connected”.

The Fall Sale is directed toward family and friends- those closest to Girl Scouting and enables troops to earn start up money by selling magazine subscriptions as well as nuts and candy.

Thank you for your support of the girls, troops and the council by purchasing or participating in the Fall Product Sale!

PRODUCT SALES PROGRAMING

Focuses on leadership, collaboration and exploring personal values through discovering, connecting and taking action to help girls explore their future potential

• 5 skills girls learn through the programs

• Goal Setting
• Decision Making
• Money Management
• People Skills
• Business Ethics

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GOAL SETTING ACTIVITIES

Setting goals is the key to a successful sale Troops and girls who set goals earn big

As an example a Troop with 10 girls

• If each girl sells…

• ¢     3 QSP orders
• ¢     20 nut items
• ¢     1 address booklet    

• Troop earns $268

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ONLINE LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Online learning activities designed to enhance the troop program activity pieces

www.whatcanagirldo.com

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WHAT ARE THE PRODUCTS?

Ashdon Farms offers fifteen delicious nut and candy selections

• These items will be sold in a three tiered pricing structure of $5.00, $6.00, $7.00 and $8.00. The product is of extremely high quality and will have 2 items offered in decorative collectors tins.

QSP Offers a Wide Variety of Products

• It’s not just magazines! Magazine and books make QSP an easy sell. With the QSP program, those same magazine sales can benefit GSCNC with 45% of the purchase price from every sale going directly to council, not the publishers.

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HOW DOES IT WORK?

All Fall Sale options in one envelope and there are two ways for troops to earn proceeds

• Taking orders for magazines

• Customers can order online or via paper forms
• Completion of Address Booklets

• Nut and candy items

• Girls take orders via a nut order card or as online Nut Promises and deliver product

Pay Up Front

• Collect all money when orders are placed
• Once product is delivered, you are done

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QSP/NUT ONLINE PROGRAM

Girls can invite family and friends to support GSCNC through online sales and promises, and it takes less than 15 minutes to get started!  Girls complete the interactive learning activity and enter email addresses to allow friends and family to shop online for magazines and NEW for 2012 to make “Nut Promises”. 

When a girl sets up her online email program, she can offer nut and candy items to their family and friends that will be receiving emails. She can select all of her email contacts to receive the offer to make “Nut Promises” or just a few.  Once a “Nut Promise” is placed by a customer, the Girl Scout will need to follow up to collect the payment and to deliver the products. Girls will be able to ask friends and family via email for “Promise” orders on Nuts & Candy items!  Girls must collect money and deliver product, so we suggest the customer be close by!

Magazines are paid for online with a credit card and will arrive to the customer sooner than orders placed on the paper order forms.

It’s easier than you think!

• Register by clicking here
• Complete the interactive learning activity
• Order your family’s subscriptions easily online and invite friends and family to shop online by entering or uploading their email addresses
• All major credit cards accepted
• Subscriptions start faster
• No paper forms to complete
• At the end of the sale, print the DETAILED ORDER REPORT and turn it in with all your other orders (paper QSP and Ashdon Farms treats) and payment to your troop

Girls will receive the Online patch for entering 12 or more email addresses and earn proceeds for their troop for each magazine subscription or nut/candy order sold online.  Additionally, girls will receive credit toward their incentives for online orders and “Nut Promises.” Girls can check back throughout the sale to track their progress and enter additional email addresses to meet their goals.  At the end of the program, girls/parents will receive a reminder email to print the Detailed Order Report showing magazines sold online and “Nut Promises.”  Just turn in the Detailed Order Report to the Troop Fall Product Sale Manager along with your other orders by the troop deadline date. Detailed Order Reports will not be accepted after the deadline date so get the orders in on time for full credit!

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TROOP PROCEEDS

Fall sale is an easy way for troops to earn start up funds

• Traditional Plan is when girls work towards fun incentive items to be awarded for individual girl achievement. The troop earns:

• 10% on all sales

• ¢ Nut and candy items and  online Nut Promises
• ¢ Online and paper magazine orders

• $2 for each completed and unique Address Booklet

• Additional Proceeds is when the troop chooses, instead of Incentive Items, as a team to earn more troop proceeds.  All level troops can choose to work for additional proceeds instead of incentive items but remember, it’s a GIRL decision and MAJORITY rules!

• 15% on all sales but no incentives (Patches will be Awarded)

• ¢     Nut and candy items and  online Nut Promises
• ¢     Online and paper magazine orders

• $2 for each completed and unique Address Booklet

New for 2012! 

This year troops have the opportunity to earn an additional 2% regardless if they are taking incentives or not. Troops must have an average of $125 per girl selling to earn the tiered- proceeds incentive.

Associations will receive 1% proceeds on ALL sales by Association Troops.

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TROOP RESOURCES

Nute 

Money Management

 

FALL PRODUCT TIMELINE

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• Training

• Training of Assn Fall Product Chairs    Aug 4, 2012
  
  

• Training of Service Unit Fall Product Chairs   Aug 11, 18, and 25th of 2012                     

• Training of Troop Fall Product Chairs           Scheduled locally by SUFPC for
                                                               early September

• Selling Period

• Order Taking    September 21- October 21, 2012
          Collect all money (for QSP, nuts and candy) when orders are placed

• Delivery

• Delivery will be scheduled by Service Unit between November 12-16, 2012

Nut & Candy delivery is perfect timing for Holiday giving!
Perfect gifts for teachers, bus drivers, and postal workers,
as a hostess gift or for the gift exchange at the office.
Order some extras for those last minute gift need!
Thanks for your support and participation in the Fall Product Sale Program!