Cookies, Of Course

Wednesday was the cookie drop for our service unit. Taking orders is rough on the whole family because it seems like everything this time of year revolves around just this one thing...


Then the cookies come and the true madness begins! I couldn't help unload the truck this year, but I did last year and it was actually fun. The cookies are brought by semi to a central location for the service unit. Then the cases are sorted by troop order. Each Troop Leader picks up the cases for the troop, then they are distributed to each girl (parent). The girls have to further break down the boxes by orders. Easy peasy, right?

The marketing doesn't end when the orders are delivered, because now we want those wonderful customers to come back next year!

Last year my little brownie had 23 large orders, but this year we had 63 smaller orders... All but 3 of last year's customers were returning customers - and those 3 had moved away, so... Keep your order forms! Use them next year when you start trolling for new orders!

We add thank you tags to our orders with each customer's name, order, and total for convenience - and it looks nice. Last year we even put some in those Dollar Tree gift bags, you know the 3/$1 ones. I saw that people really do appreciate the extra effort with presentation and decided to go a little bigger this year. (You know me - go big or go home!) Thanking your customers is also the last step for the "Meet My Customers" badge.

I took the time to do something I wish I had done the last 2 years and took a picture of my little brownie with her cookies. I saw something very similar on Pinterest and made it my very own. You don't want to see what my living room looked like to set this up! I had to move the couch and take about 40 shots to get the perfect one. Yes, it was a pain and very time consuming. They fell over twice until I got out my left over boards and several different sized boxes to stack the cookie boxes on. The backdrop is our cookie table cloth, then I cropped it and added the text in Photoshop.

I bought some postcard stock and plan on making this year's tags by printing these out 2 to each postcard, trimming them down to 3x4" and putting our contact info on the back - you know, in case someone runs out of cookies. I am going to print out a full sized postcard to send to the nice lady (distant cousin by marriage twice removed, lol) that ordered online and paid that extravagant shipping to help my little brownie go to camp this year!

Maybe next year we will get even more orders!

Have fun with your cookies!