Calling all Girl Scout Leaders and Cookie Coordiantors - our Scout web portal is now up. Visit www.VolunteerSpot.com, leave your busy-work behind, get more parents participating and make more time for troop FUN! VolunteerSpot's free online sign up tool is super easy for Cookie Booth scheduling and coordinating parent volunteers for Troop activities such as meetings, field trips, service projects, bridging ceremonies, campouts and more.

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COOKIE COORDINATORS : FREE TROOP COOKIE BOOTH SCHEDULER & TIPS
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• Signing up Scouts with a click
• Streamlining communication
• Keeping everyone organized
IN REAL TIME! This was EASY! Not only did I
use VolunteerSpot to schedule
our cookie booth slots, I used it
• Reducing Leader and Cookie to schedule cookie pickup too.
Coordinator frustration I’m giddy about how much time
this has saved me over last year
• Helping Scouts SELL MORE – HOURS, and cookie sales
have just begun!
COOKIES!
Girl Scout Cookie Booth Scheduling Made Easy/ www.VolunteerSpot.com Julia H., Brownie Leader
Austin, TX

3. Helping leaders coordinate volunteers simply
and easily all year round!
• Meeting Helpers
• Snack Schedule
• Campouts
• Bridging Ceremonies
I’ve been really enjoying my
• Service Projects
experience with Volunteer
• Field Trips and Day Camps Spot. I will use it for events
throughout the year because it is
• Scout Jamborees extremely user-friendly!
Theresa C., Product Sales Mgr
Girl Scouts of Central Texas
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4. Before VolunteerSpot With VolunteerSpot
Cookie Coordinator gets the booth Cookie Coordinator makes the booth
schedule and invites Scout Parents to schedule and invites Scout parents to
sign up via email, Yahoo!Group or sign up with an email
clipboard signup sheet
Scout Parents REPLY ALL or CALL Scout Parents sign up on a calendar
IN their interest and when they are with a click – choosing cookie booth
available spots
Cookie Coordinator juggles the VolunteerSpot sends automated
schedule back and forth until it’s full – confirmation and reminder messages –
making more calls, sending more helping everyone keep their commitment
emails, and making Excel spread
@!#$! sheets Cookie Booths Made
*If (s)he has the time * Easy!!
Cookie Coordinator makes reminder
phone calls
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5. • Multiple Days,
Multiple Needs
– EASY!
• Make
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• Set Shifts
• Copy Plans
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7. Step 2: Scout Parents Sign
Up
(day view)
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8. Step 3: VolunteerSpot Sends
Automated confirmation emails
Automated reminder emails
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accommodate last minute changes
LOVE , LOVE, LOVE
the reminders! My
parents are showing up
for meetings & with all
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the right stuff!!
Katy G., Brownie Leader
Girl Scout Cookie Booth Scheduling Made Easy/ www.VolunteerSpot.com Minneapolis, MN

9. Checklist:
Successful CookieBooths
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Safety First – Ensure supervision by the Best Face Forward – Smile and be
SafetyWise number of adults. Stay near the courteous to everyone, even those who don’t
booth at all times. buy. Never eat or drink at the cookie booth.
Set Expectations – Talk with Scouts ahead of Cash Smarts – Keep the cash box guarded at
time about how to act and what to expect. all times. Bring lots of change. Print an aid to
Practice selling by role-playing. Wear uniforms. help quickly total sales and make change.
Set a Goal – Display a Troop Goal Overcome Objections – If someone is on a
Thermometer tracking cookie sales.
g diet, ask them to consider donating a box to your
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Troop’s charity (e.g. Operation Cookie, sending
Bring Needed Supplies – Table, table cookies to soldiers overseas).
covering, chairs, posters, inventory, bags, etc.
Say Thank You – Sincerely thank each
Know your Cookies – Practice cookie facts customer.
customer Thank the merchant as you leave and
and provide samples. follow-up with a card or poster from the Troop.
Ask Everyone – Asking is the best way to get Leave No Evidence – Clean up and leave the
people to purchase. Try this great opening line: area even better than before you arrived
What’s
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HAVE FUN & SELL LOTS OF COOKIES!
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10. Get Started NOW
Please visit VolunteerSpot and
get started today!
www.VolunteerSpot.com
VolunteerSpot is FREE for Troop
Leaders and anyone coordinating
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community volunteers.
Put an end to Troop busy
• PTA, PTO, PSA, Booster Clubs
work and make more time for
• Congregations & Youth Groups FUN!
• Community Nonprofits
• Rec Sports (swim team, soccer, etc.) Experience a sample
• Service Learning volunteer signup at
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www.VolunteerSpot.com
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11. Spread the Word – THANK
YOU!
Thank you for supporting Girl
Scouts and making a BIG
difference in your community and
DOING GOOD j t got easier.
just t i
the lives of all our girls!
We invite you to email this g
y guide
to your friends and post it on your
website or blog. Please visit our
Volunteer Guru Blog, to share
your personal best practices, tips,
and suggestions.
http://blog.VolunteerSpot.com
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