Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Show & Sells: Be Polite!

I learned a good lesson about selling at one of my very first show & sells. Some older scouts were there and were calling out (really shouting), "SUPPORT THE TROOPS!!  BUY POPCORN!!!" like they were vendors at a carnival or street fair.  People walked out of their way to avoid us and in three hours we had almost no sales and almost no donations.  The next day, I was with one other scout. We both asked people nicely and politely if they would like to support scouting by buying popcorn.  In less than half the amount of time, we sold more than DOUBLE the amount of popcorn and had DOUBLE the donations, too. People wanted to buy from us!

So be nice and be polite!

Good luck selling!


-- Elian

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