2012 Cookie Program: January 19 through March 4, 2012   

Upload of Girls into Snap

Today girls have been uploaded into snap from our membership database. If you notice that there are discrepancies between the actual girls in your troop and the girls listed in snap, please follow the procedure outlined below:

• Contact your Service Unit Cookie Manager with the discrepancies. Please include when your girl membership registrations were turned in if there are girls missing.   
• Service Unit Cookie Managers will notify their respective Product Program Manager with a simple email including the following information:

• Troop Number:
• Names of girls missing from Snap:
• Approximate time-frame that the registrations were turned in:
• Were these electronic registrations via eBiz or paper registrations?
• Names of girls that are listed in Snap that should not be:  

Upon receiving this information, the Product Program team will work with the Registration Department as well as our Membership Department to correct the discrepancies. We will be uploading girls from our membership database into snap weekly.  

GSEP Cookie Goals:

• PGA 136 + 
• 4,305,000 + Total Packages 
• 90% Participation
• 7,000 Cases of Cookies for Operation Cookies From Home   

As of January 30, 2012 we're at 76% of our 4, 305,000 package goal. 3,210,720 packages have already been sold! Keep up the great work! 

Walk About Weekend

February 4 and 5 are great days to catch people at home watching the "Big Game."  Gather up your cookies and canvas your neighborhood for a great opportunity to sell some cookies!   

Bling Your Booth!

Join the fun and "bling your booth!" We will be seeking one winner in each of the following categories:

• What can a cookie do? How does your Cookie Booth reflect the 2012 Cookie Program Theme, "What can a cookie do?"
• Operation Cookies From Home! How does your Cookie Booth promote our "Operation Cookies From Home" initiative?
• Taste the Tradition! How does your Cookie Booth celebrate 100 years of Girl Scouting?
• Open! Put your marketing skills to the test and think outside the box to come up with a one of a kind Cookie Booth!

Rules: A troop may submit one entry per category by submitting a photograph of the troop's cookie booth along with a completed submission form by March 15, 2012 at 5:00 PM. Submit photos through the Online Bling Your Booth Entry Form.

Judging: GSEP Staff members will select two finalists in each category. These finalists will be featured on our GSEP Thin Mints Facebook page for fans to cast their votes for the winners. Voting begins on March 20 and ends on April 20, 2012. The photographs with the most "likes" in each category will be our winners.

Prizes: One winning troop will be selected in each category. Winning photographs will be featured on www.gsep.org and the winning troops will receive 20 tickets to Coco Key Water Resort in Mt. Laurel, NJ!  At Coco Key Water Resort your troop will enjoy a day packed with fun water activities, exciting water slides and an arcade!

5=52 Customer Contest! 

Financial Responsibility

Here are some good practices with Cookie Finances:

• If you are a Troop Cookie Manager, please ensure that you are making regular deposits for cookies that you have received throughout the program.  
• Don't accept checks from strangers. If a check bounces, it is not always easy to track down someone that you are unfamiliar with.
• At this point, all troops should have 15% of their initial order deposited into the GSEP Product Program account.  

Need More Cookies?

The Council Sponsored Reorder Station Schedule will let you know when and where you can pick up more cookies. 

In order to properly manage our inventory, this year we are encouraging troops to place planned orders in Snap for more cookies.  This is a simple process that will allow us to know where you want to pick up cookies, when you want to pick up cookies and the quantity and variety of cookies you'd like to pick up on a given day.  Planned orders should be placed no later than noon on the day before you'd like to pick up the order. To place a planned order please visit our blog at gsepthinmints.blogspot.com for a tutorial video posted on January 11. You will still need to bring a completed T-8 form with you when you pick up your order. When you place a planned order in snap, you will enter the date and location that you would like to pick up your cookies. You must follow the Council Sponsored Reorder Station Schedule for exact times that the locations are open. Please note that planned orders must match your T-8 Forms. You cannot pick up more cookies than was previously planned. 

If you are unable to place a planned order, you can pick up an unplanned order at the locations listed below, provided that they are open for unplanned orders on the day you'd like to pick up your cookies; these locations are highlighted in gray on the Council Sponsored Reorder Station Schedule .

• Lehigh Valley Service Center
• Shelly Ridge Service Center
• Valley Forge Service Center
• Fischer Hughes Lansdale
• Read's Moving and Storage