2014 Fall Product Training

1. 2014 Fall Product Program
Girl Scouts of NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
Girl Scout Council Logo Here

2. Thank you for making the time to help Girl Scouts in
your council area.
Your support means the
world to us!

3. What Can Product Sales Do?
• Supports council programs for girls in your
council area
• Provides early start up funds for troops/groups
• Girls can earn individual rewards
• Creates educational experience for girls to
learn life skills
Goal
Setting
Decision
Making
Money
Management
People
Skills
Business
Ethics

4. Eligibility and Responsibility
• Girl Eligibility
– Current registration
– Parent Permission
• SU Fall Product Manager Responsibilities
– Read your position description in the manual very carefully.
– Promote the program and the products offered to all eligible troops.
– Train all troops and assign a nut-e username and password.
– Distribute materials, products, prizes etc.
– Maintain regular communication with troops and Council Product Sales Manager
during the sale.
– Ensure that all troops place and order in Nut-E.
– Deliver troop final paperwork to council by deadline.

5. Eligibility and Responsibility cont’d.
• Troop Fall Manager Responsibilities
– Make sure troop and all girls are registered
– Read over the fall manual and all the materials
– Attend fall product training
– Make sure each girl receive a packet, have each parent sign the permission
form.
– Keep parents informed of all due dates
– Enter all girl orders into Nut-E
– Distribute product and collect money
– Make deposit and hand in final paperwork by deadline

6. Troop Proceeds
• Troops will receive the
following
• 20% on all nut and candy items
• 15 % for any magazine or book orders
– Online orders troops will receive and
additional 5%
• $2 for each completed address booklet.
– NEW this year only 5 names needed
• 5% additional for troops opting out of receiving
rewards. This reward is only for Junior, Cadet,
Senior, and Ambassador troops only.
Troops can easily earn
Early Start Up funds

7. Review of important dates
• Order taking begins – September 19, 2014
• Order taking ends – October 10,2014
• Troop orders due in ebudde – October 13, 2014 by
11:59pm
– Nut-e is date and time sensitive, troops will be locked out after 11:59pm.
• Nut and Candy delivered – November 3-6th , 2014
• Troop deposit due – November 19, 2014
• Troop final paperwork due – November 19, 2014

8. Sea Otters!

9. Participation is Easy!
• Two ways for girls to earn more money
• Taking orders for magazines and photo keepsakes
• Customers can order online, via paper forms or Reach Out
(Address Booklet)
• Nut and candy items
• Girls take orders via a nut order card or online nut store
• Pay Up Front
• Collect all magazine and photo keepsake money when orders are
placed
• Nut & Chocolate money is collected at time the order is placed
• All Fall Sale options in one envelope

10. Troops earn:
20% for each
nut/candy item
15% for each
magazine/photo
keepsake 20% for
Online Orders
$2 for each address
booklet
Girl Packet
Nuts & Chocolates
Address Booklet
Magazines Photo Keepsake
Brochure
Girl Sales Packets

11. • People already buy magazines!
• The average family subscribes to 4
magazines a year and spends $125
• People can support Girl Scouts without
spending any additional funds
• Magazines appeal to everyone, every
interest!
Why Magazines?

12. What’s New for 2014
New nut products and a online nut store
instead of online nut promise orders
Addition of a new product line –
ToRememberThis - personalized digital
photo books and more
Enhancements to online experience for
customer, girl and troop leader

13. 2014 New Product Offerings
• Almond Cran-Orange
Crunch
• English Butter Toffee
• For 2015 sale, pistachios and blueberry pomegranate nut squares will be
discontinued

14. To remember this
New!
Photo Keepsakes
• A collection of photo-driven personalized digital
photo books and more
• Customers upload photos from Facebook,
Instagram, PCs and mobile devices to create
photo books, calendars, cards and other items
• Runs seamlessly with existing program since
orders are taken just like magazines – paper
order forms or online. No additional work!
• Customers receive email with code or pre-paid
certificates with instructions on how to create their
keepsakes at torememberthis.com
• Completed products delivered directly to
customers 5 to 7 days after completion at
torememberthis.com
• Mobile Bookshelf app included with every
purchase.

16. PAPER FORM ORDERING
 Same form is used to order
magazines and photo
keepsake items
 Customers should fill out the
paper order forms
 Money is collected at the
time the order is placed
 White and yellow returned to
Fall Product Manager. Pink
copy stays with customer

17. • Use for family and friends not contacted through other
parts of the sale
• Names and addresses not rented or sold
• Easy to complete
• Have girls bring holiday card list to a troop
meeting and complete booklets during that time
• A completed booklet consists of 5 unique names and
addresses
• Personalize with P.S. note
• Opportunity for $2 in troop proceeds for each
completed booklet
• NEW – Only one mailing sent to customers
• Supporters will have the option to go online and order
– no processing fee!
ADDRESS BOOKLET

18. ONLINE ORDERING
Girls can set goals and
personalize their welcome
page with optional photos and
messages
Participants register or login at
http://girlscouts.qspgao.com/ncalabama for
online magazine and online nut store

19. Sending Emails to Family & Friends
• For all previous participants, emails from last year will
already be preloaded into your send emails page.
• Participants will also have access to an Order History
Report with customer purchases from last year
• Recipients of the email simply click the link, make their
selection and pay with credit card
• No processing fees for customers
• Parents print Girl’s Online Sales Report or email to troop
manager for girls to receive credit for orders generated
online
• Troop leaders should identify themselves during the
registration process to receive a detailed report of all
sales for girls in their troop at the end of the program

20. ONLINE NUT STORE
• All emails will contain a link to shop
for nuts online
• 25 Girl Scout items + 5
corporate gift items
• Customers pay shipping
• Girl’s Online Sales Report will
have a total number of online nuts
and dollars sold
• Troop manager should enter this
information in Nut-e in the Online
Nuts column
New!

21. Shopping is Easy
Emails sent to supporters will
include a link to the Magazine
Store and a link to the Nut
Store

22. SPREADING THE WORD
• Girls can invite customers to order online or order with
paper order forms
• Two ways to invite customers to shop online
• Make sure girls write their Girl Online ID
that is assigned upon registration on the
business cards to ensure proper credit. If
they don’t include this number, they must
write first name, last name and troop
number that they used to register on the
online store
• Girls distribute “Spread the Word” business
cards to customers who can go directly online
using girlscouts.qspgao.com

23. ENCOURAGE GIRLS TO ENTER EMAILS FIRST
• Original email sent immediately
– Three reminders will be sent
5 days apart
– After ordering, recipients will
not receive reminder emails
• Get emails out first
– Emails are working while
girls are taking orders using
the catalog
SEND FALL
SALE
EMAILS!!

24. Girl’s Online Sales Report
• Proceeds are earned for each order
generated online
• Families simply print out or email the
Girl’s Online Sales Report and submit it
to the troop manager along with the
paper orders to receive credit
• Reminder email with Girl’s Online Sales
Report at the end of the sale
• Troop leaders can register to receive a
detailed report at the end of the sale with all
sales totals for girls in their troop
Equal Credit for All Magazine Orders and
Online Nut Promises

25. QSP CUSTOMER SERVICE
GUARANTEE
Customer Service
800.251.1542

26.  Girls use order takers
to collect nut and candy
orders
 Money is collected at
the time of order
 Products will be
delivered to the Service
Unit Manager and
picked up at the
designated time by the
troop manager
NUTS!

27. $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $6.00 NEW
$6.00
$6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00
$6.00
NEW
$5.00
$5.00 $5.00 $5.00
SALE DATES- 9/19- 10/10

28. Item Ranking 2012 vs. 2013
%
Sold
Units
Sold
2012 Products 2013 Products
Units
Sold
%
Sold
17% 7,296 PECAN CLUSTERS PECAN CLUSTERS 4,671 15%
9% 3,910
PEANUT BUTTER
BEARS
PEANUT BUTTER
BEARS 2,856 9%
9% 3,856 CHOC ALMONDS WHOLE CASHEWS 2,381 8%
9% 3,811 WHOLE CASHEWS CRANBERRY NUT MIX 2,299 7%
7% 3,017 CRANBERRY NUT MIX CHOC ALMONDS 2,179 7%
7% 2,882
DULCE DE LECHE
OWLS
DULCE DE LECHE
OWLS 2,067 7%
6% 2,630 CHOC RAISINS CHOC RAISINS 1,969 6%
6% 2,474 CAJUN CRUNCH CAJUN CRUNCH 1,883 6%
5% 2,347 CHOC PEANUTS CHOC PEANUTS 1,849 6%
5% 2,268 MINT PENGUINS
BUTTER TOASTED
PEANUTS 1,648 5%
5% 2,095 FRUIT SLICES MINT PENGUINS 1,604 5%
5% 2,043
HONEY ROASTED
PEANUTS
HONEY ROASTED
PEANUTS 1,529 5%

29. $50 SALES
3 Mags/TRT
ADDRESS BOOKLET
5 NAMES
ALL RECOGNITIONS ARE CUMULATIVE
12 EMAILS
5 MILITARY ORDER
6 Mags
$100
Combined sales
$175 Combined
Sales.
$275 Combined sales.
Choice.
$375
Combined sales
+
$475
Combined sales
$575
Combined sales
choice
$675 Combined
sales
$775 combined
Sales Choice
Completed Ashdon and
QSP online activity
+
OR
$1000
BEST BUY
$100
+
$1500
ONE WEEK
RESIDENT CAMP
VALUE $329
OR

30. See council Fall
Sale Guide Book
for instructions on
assigning login
names and
passwords
www.ashdonfarmsnute.com

31. GIRL ORDERS
– Save after entering each girl order and save again to confirm
recognitions
– Only Submit troop order after all girl orders have been
entered by clicking pink button

32. GIRL ORDERS
• Girl names can be entered into system at any time during the sale
• Enter the number of girls registered and click save
– The submit nut/candy order button will be activated
• After being added, girls appear in bottom container
– Enter products sold by each girl
– Photo keepsake items are entered in the magazine columns and count
just like a magazine subscription
– Online nuts are entered as a cumulative total
– Save after entering each girl order and again to confirm recognitions

33. REPORTS

34. DEPOSIT DETAILS
• All checks should be made payable to Girl Scouts of North
Central Al
• Troops must deposit all checks collected by you to your troop
account in time for them to clear the bank before you draw a
check on your troop checking account.
• A troop check written for the amount due to the council should be
deposited into the council regions account by November 19th,
2015.
• Troops can deposit their magazine payment by October 15th or
turn in one check paying for the paper magazine subscriptions.
• Troop leaders or chairs should make deposits and return either a
validated deposit slip or deposit receipt to the SU Fall Manager

35. Paperwork to Return to Service Unit Fall Manager
• Return to SUFPM by October 15th or
date set by them.
• Separate white and yellow copies of
magazine order forms by troop
• Address Booklets booklets
• Validated deposit slips, deposit
receipts or troop check for magazine
subscriptions.

36. SU paperwork to turn into Product Sales Manager
• If order forms or Address Booklets are
incorrect, return to troop leaders or fall
sale manager for corrections
• Pink copies of order forms remain with
customers
• Girl order forms (yellow and white
copies separated)
• Girl’s Online Sales Reports
• Address Booklets
• Validated troop deposit slips or deposit
receipts

37. REPORTS

38. REMINDERS
 Collect Girl’s Online Sales Reports from participating girls
 Enter online nuts, magazines and photo keepsakes into Nut-e
for credit
 Nut Delivery from November 3-5. You will be contacted by the
delivery agent to finalize time and date
 Count nut and chocolate products carefully before signing
 Distribute nut and chocolate products immediately…remember
chocolate melts.
 If you have specific program questions, refer to your training
materials or call the council office

39. THANKS FOR ALL YOU
DO!
Our council’s success is due to your endless efforts…