Popcorn Sales Plan 2009

Dates:

9/15 – Show and Sell Orders Due (Maximum Order of $ 1000)

9/22 – Kickoff Meeting – Popcorn Fun Meeting

10/3 – Official start of Popcorn Sales

10/3 – Popcorn blitz – hitting neighborhoods with groups of kids selling popcorn

10/10 and 10/17 – Lowe’s Hardware/Northlake Mall is allowing us to set up booths at their store.

10/10 and 10/11 – Harris Teeter/ Univ City Blvd is allowing us to set up booths at their store.
11/3 – Official close of Popcorn sales

11/21 – Popcorn sales pickup for delivery

12/8 - Popcorn money is due

Plan:

Organize our efforts to make this the best selling year ever by:
1. Getting locations for boys to sell popcorn
2. Find corporate sales
3. Scouts selling door to door and elsewhere
Do a Kickoff Meeting – Fun with Popcorn – we will have section where kids can play popcorn activities and enjoy eating popcorn and snacks
Keep enthusiasm up with weekly give-a-ways
On October 3^rd, the kick off of sales, we plan on sending groups of 4-6 boys out with an adult going into neighborhoods to do neighborhood blitzes selling popcorn. The boys will be paired up in twos for safety. We will ask kids to volunteer neighborhoods near them so that when it comes time for delivery it will be their responsibility to deliver the popcorn. All sales in that neighborhood will be divided equally between the boys who participate.
Ask for creative photos, stories and videos of popcorn sales to submit to Council for contest and fun.

Parents Support – We will ask parents to volunteer in the following ways:

Drivers for Blitz day
Parents who could video tape different angles of the Kick off meeting for the contest
Parents to be at locations – Lowes and Harris Teeter to help
Volunteer for set up on the kick off day
Bring us leads for corporate sales of popcorn
Gift donations – give themselves and solicit from others

Don Grothoff

Popcorn Colonel

Cell: 704-562-1630

Office: 704-557-0045