- Oh my God, so we're hauling stuff, too.
Okay.
- Good thing I'm very strong and have a lot of free time.
- Well then I've give you my boxes as well.
- Oh great.
(upbeat music)
On my honor, I will try,
- To serve God and my country.
- To help other people at all times,
- And to live by the Girl Scout law.
- (laughs) Got 'em.
- I was a Girl Scout for a long time.
I loved the organization.
I loved what it did for me.
In honor of cookie sales and girls everywhere,
I'm going to bring the girls of Ladylike
and the girls of Girl Scouts together
to form a power force
and so we can sell some cookies.
- This week, Kristen and I are going to meet
with a bunch of Girl Scouts from different troops
and they're gonna give us a crash course
in how to sell cookies.
I 100% need this course.
I am not a salesman.
I did not go to business school.
- I don't know if I'm a good salesperson.
I think the cookies are a great salesperson.
- I didn't know Girl Scouts had levels.
So I didn't realize I actually was a Girl Scout.
I was a Daisy and then I was a Brownie.
I think I did Girl Scouts for like, three years.
- I was a Brownie for two years.
I do remember selling cookies.
I don't remember selling them very well.
Tomorrow we're going to this Girl Scout boot camp.
We haven't met the girls.
We have no idea what they have planned for us.
We know they're probably smarter than us,
but I am afraid as to what form that will take.
- After our crash course,
we are going to split up at our office
and under the guide of the Girl Scouts,
Kristen and I are going to compete against each other
to see who can sell the most boxes of cookies.
- The Girl Scouts provide closure
to the New Years resolution
that you have long since abandoned.
- I am charming so I think
I am going to sell a lot of boxes,
but Kristen is also charming.
There's no way to sabotage her.
- Hi, my name is Brooklyn.
I'm most proud of my Independence patch.
- My name's Marissa and I really like drawing.
My favorite cookie is the Samoas.
- Hi, my name is Alisha
and this is my fourth year in Girl Scouts.
I'm most proud of my Bronze Award pin.
- Hi, my name is Katelyn
and I've been a Girl Scout for four years.
My favorite cookie is the Savannah Smiles.
- My name's Vanessa and I really like robotics.
I have been a Girl Scout for eight years
and I am now a Cadet.
- Hi, my name is Anna.
I am most proud of my Bronze Award.
- Hey girls! - Hey!
- Hi!
- Hi gals!
- Hi Devin! - Hey Devin!
- Are ya'll ready for some Girl Scout fun?
- Yeah. - Yes.
- Who's ready for
- [Girl Scouts] Girl Scout Boot Camp?
- Now I am.
- Yeah.
- We've prepared some classes for you
based on Girl Scout cookie selling.
- Ooh.
- Thank you.
- These classes are on the five skills
of Girl Scout cookie sales.
- Goal setting,
decision making,
money management,
people skills,
and business ethics.
- Whoo.
Wow, you know more adult stuff than we do, probably.
(girls laugh)
- All right,
should we get started? - Yeah.
- Yeah. - Yeah!
- Alright, let's go! - Let's go!
- Today we have a Money Management class for you guys.
- And doing this we are,
- [Girls] The Sales Sisters.
Duh-da-da-da-duh.
- In your class, we're gonna be doing an activity
where we are going to be your customers
and you guys shall be the ones who are selling us
Girl Scout cookies.
- How well do you guys manage your money?
- My money is chill.
- Chill. (laughing)
- Uh, I order a lot of pizza.
(loud burping)
- We're adults, but in name only
(laughing) is what you're learning
right now.
All right, you'll be able to teach us though.
- Indeed.
Well with that said, let's get started.
- Oh my gosh, let's do it. (laughing)
- Hi! - Hi.
- Can we interest you in the purchase
of some Girl Scout cookies?
- Of course.
I will take two of these, one of those, and one of those.
- Okay. - Uh-oh.
- And I need to go very quickly.
I have a salon appointment today.
- 12 plus 10 plus five.
22 plus five
27, $27 dollars, please.
- Here you go.
- 40 minus 27.
- 13, 13. - (laughs) Okay.
- And you have some change.
- It only took two of us. - Yes.
- Are you sure it's $27?
- Yes, because, okay, if you want two of these,
these are five each, so that's 10.
Two of these and they're 6 each, so it's.
- I only said one of those, please.
- And then mine's $5
- Jen! - Hey!
22, $22.
- No, now 13.
Now it's, oh so I guess it's.
- It's 22 minus 40.
What's 22 minus 40?
11, $11!
(digital beeping)
- No, I think that's less (laughs).
You gave her 12.
(laughing) - This is wrong!
- That's 13.
Okay, no.
This is going badly.
- [Marissa] I'm almost late for my appointment!
- Oh my. (laughing)
You should have not bought cookies before then.
So you want (laughs)?
- She wants $12 plus five and five.
- Yes.
- So that's 22.
Gave us $40, so 40 minus 22?
- Is 18.
- 18, we're getting ready to do that
- So we're giving 18 back.
Okay, well we've gotta find a five.
- We've got five, we did it.
All right. - Piece of cake.
Enjoy your appointment.
(Laughter)
- Thank you.
- That could have gone better.
- Yeah, it could have gone better.
- You guys did really good!
- Yes!
- Give yourselves a round of applause, okay?
- Okay. - Oh!
- It was wonderful.
- We do not deserve this.
- So you guys were super funny
which attracts customers and all of that.
Now lets talk about the things that you
could have worked on.
Next time don't leave money on the table
for an unsuspecting person to steal.
- And I guess that's probably what we should be using
this big money box for?
- Yes. - Yes.
(laughter)
Another thing is that
you guys would have a little change chart
so you just gotta look on your chart
and then bam, you just give that much.
- Seriously? - So you can have
a little cheat sheet back here.
- Yeah, exactly. - Exactly.
- That would have helped.
- I truly felt the terror of having never done this before.
(laughing)
- Hello and welcome to the goal setting class.
- Oh. - Goal setting, okay.
- What is one of your goals?
- I would love to be able to cook every meal for one week.
- I would love to finish writing a book.
(record scratching)
- I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be about cookies.
(laughter)
- I'll tell you one thing, Brooklyn.
I want to sell some cookies.
- I would love to sell some cookies, and also write a book.
- You have to be specific about how many cookies
you would like to sell.
- What do you think is a reasonable goal for two people
who might not know what they're doing?
- You might be able to sell about 350 boxes.
- You are a nice person. - No, that is nice.
I think you might want to take that expectation
and limbo pole it down
- Reel it in! - By about 300 boxes.
- What are your guys' goals, each of you, for this year?
- My goal is to sell 500 or more.
- My goal is to sell 1,000 or more.
- Wow. - Wow (laughs)!
- We have some high achievers all right.
- I don't think I have ever seen that many boxes
of Girl Scout cookies at once (laughs).
- So what is our challenge for right now?
- You guys are gonna make your own chart.
Up here is gonna be what your goal is,
and then this is how many you want to sell.
And then over here is why you want to sell.
- You want 500 boxes, so you'd write that right there?
- Yeah and then. - Okay, I get it.
- For I want to help Girl Scouts is,
for my troop, for example,
my troop wants to organize a community service project
to help the homeless and then we'll also go on a fun trip.
- Anna, so what would your goal be?
- We're saving money to go to San Francisco
to bridge across the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Cool. - Ooh.
- Very cool, wow.
So our goals are to sell 150 boxes each.
- You guys are gonna kill it on Friday.
(loud clapping)
- [Girls] It's time for your elevator pitches.
(groaning)
- 'Sup?
- Jen, why should someone buy Girl Scout cookies?
- Somebody should buy Girl Scout cookies because
Girl Scout cookies are delicious
but they also help support the education of young women
all across America.
- Kristin, why should someone buy
Girl Scout Cookies from you?
- Because I really, really need the money
and I would really like to sell a lot of cookies
because if I don't sell a lot of cookies
everyone is gonna think that I'm bad at
selling cookies and I better be better than Jen
'cause I'll be really sad if I'm not!
Okay, cool, thanks buh-bye!
So!
- Hey guys!
- How did we do?
- You need a little improvement.
- We're gonna use the Girl Scout Law to help you out.
Kristin, we decided that you needed to be more honest
and fair because a true Girl Scout would not use the money
for her own proceeds.
- That is true, you're right. I did not think of that.
- And Jen, you did very good with your speech,
- Oh! - But you needed
to be a little more courageous and strong.
You were kind of speeding it up a little to fast.
- I see, so just calm it down a little bit.
- Exactly. - Chill out.
- Okay, yeah, I can chill.
I feel like this has been very helpful.
- [Girls] Yay!
- You guys completed Girl Scout Boot Camp!
- We're so proud of you because you did such a great job!
- Thank you! - That's really nice.
Very generous.
- Do y'all think that we're ready for Friday?
- Definitely! - Yes!
- We're all gonna be there on Friday to help you out.
- Whoever wins, that's up to fate.
- We all win.
We all win. - Actually, yeah,
we're all gonna win. - Yeah, yeah.
- But I might win, though.
- Yeah, she might win for real,
(laughing) I don't know.
- Okay, today is the day we're gonna sell some
Girl Scout cookies at Buzzfeed.
Yesterday I sent out a flyer.
Bing!
To everyone at Buzzfeed LA.
Now no one in the office knows that it's a competition,
so the girls are really gonna have to use their
salesmanships and all the things that they learned
from the Girl Scout Bootcamp
to try to attract the most customers.
All in all we're just gonna be learning
from each other today.
We don't have time to waste, we gotta sell some cookies!
Are you ready for a big day?
- Yeah!
- I am too.
We have to divvy up our one big happy family
into two different teams. (girls groan)
So we've already elected Katelyn and Alisha as our judges.
Have we come to a decision of who we want
to sell cookies with today?
- Yes. - Yes.
- Oh, already?
Brooklyn, who have you decided for your team with Anna?
- Jen. - Jen.
- Jen, okay, so that leaves you with Kristin?
- Yep!
- Do we feel good about this?
- Yes! - Yes!
- Alright, so we've decided who our teams are,
are we ready to go tell Jen and Kristin?
- [Girls] Yeah!
- Well then, let's go!
(girls cheer)
- I am here with Marissa and Vanessa.
- We are
the Selling Sisters! - The Selling Sisters!
- Okay, okay.
(laughter)
- Welcome to my team.
This is team French Fry.
This is our booth.
- Okay we've already decided it's going Team Chicken.
- There we go. - 'Cause chicken's delicious.
- My team, they're kind of like M16, honestly.
They're basically like secret agents
when it comes to cookie selling.
Silent, but deadly, if you will.
- We are going to be blinging out our booth.
- This is a decorated booth.
- Before we bling up our booth we'll have to do this.
- What is this?
- This is our inventory list.
- All right. - It keeps track
of how many cookies you start with
and how many cookies you end with.
And also the money that you start with
and the money that you end with.
- Oh yeah, I guess that would makes sense.
- Yeah. - Since you were
having trouble with change,
here is a lanyard with a change chart on it.
- Oh, so okay, this is my change chart.
We are perhaps already undefeated.
- If you don't know how much money you're supposed to have?
- Then. - Then, uh, we have a problem.
- No one will be going to Six Flags.
(laughing)
- [Alisha] I think they'll do really well
because we really trained them today.
As long as they follow the Girl Scout Law
they should be good.
- [Girl] Get your Girl Scout Cookies here!
- Can I get two Samoas?
- [Jen] Are you gonna pay with cash or credit?
- $5.31
- Thank you for doing the math.
(laughing) - Thank you.
- So that's 15 plus 6.
What's 15 plus 6?
21. - 15 plus 6 equals 21.
- How was your experience buying from Jen?
- The Jen line was the slower line,
but they had good service.
- We already sold over 40 boxes.
We are killing it!
- Very well organized,
particularly over here on Kristin's side.
- Do you see customers?
(woman shouts) Hey, Nikki!
Oh, Nikki's gonna go to Jen (laughs).
- [Anna] Okay, are you paying with cash or card?
- Can I pay with card, please? - Yes.
- Jen's on her phone, I want your business very badly.
- This is honestly stressful.
- I messed up the change.
I am excited.
- [Anna] Thank you for supporting Girl Scouts
and enjoy your cookies.
- Oh!
- I am le tired.
- We did it.
- Yeah.
- Heck yes, you guys did!
You did it!
Didn't they do it gals?
(girls cheer)
(laughing)
You sold cookies!
- Yeah, that was exhausting.
I am amazed that y'all are able to do that for
even just two months.
- We have the results. - We have the results.
- Can we just all pretend that we are all winners?
- Let's start with you, Jen.
I thought that you were friendly and helpful,
and you just showed how friendly and efficient
your booth was.
- Thank you.
Aw, what an honor. - Now it's your turn, Kristin.
- Lay it on me.
- Your lines were very fast and efficient
and that your team was very hard working.
- Well, that's good to hear.
- So we have
the final results. (Jen mumbles)
Are y'all ready?
- Yep.
- Drum roll, please.
(hands slapping on knees)
Team French Fry had 136 boxes.
- Oh! - Ah, that's good.
- That's good. Team Chicken
sold 143 boxes,
making them the winner! (girls cheer and applaud)
- I knew it!
And great job to Team French Fry.
(cheering and applauding)
- I hope you all see that selling Girl Scout Cookies
isn't that easy.
We all did our best and we all are Girl Scouts now.
So, do we have the patches?
- Oh, wait.
- No, way! - What?
- Yep. - Oh my God!
- Congrats on your first
(girls cheer) cookie badge.
- In honor of National Cookie week,
you get two badges for that as well.
(cheering and applause)
- I gonna glue these to my face.
- Me too!
(laughing)
- [Girl Scouts] Selling Girl Scout cookies.
Lady tasted, lady approved!
(cheering)
- Now let's go eat our cookies!
(cheering)
(upbeat music)
- [Girls] Cookie!
Go scout cookie!
Girl scout cookie!
(upbeat music)
(squeaking hinges)