Well the neighborhood Girl scout really taught me a lesson in marketing and it was not until a few days later that I became aware of it. As many know, Spring signals the annual Girl Scout cookie drive. This yearly ploy to sale cookies that I do not need at an over inflated price happens every year. This year I bought four boxes thanks to a pre teen marketing genius. Now it was not until a few days later that I realized I had been scammed. OK, scammed is a harsh word, perhaps I should say PWNED. While having a discussion with my wife when said boxes of scrumptious cookies arrived, my wife wondered why this year we purchased four boxes. I had to think back and then remembered that this Trump like little girl told me that the yummy Caramel deLites were four for $14.00 when I asked how much they were. I did not even think twice and opened up my wallet and paid her. My wife went on to inform me that you can buy them by the box at $3.50 a piece. My wife informed me that from now on I am not allowed to buy the Girl Scout cookies.
Is there a marketing lesson in here? Most definitely and it his not hard to learn it. I am pretty sure this little girl won the most sold boxes sold contest and if the Girl Scout Organization is indeed teaching this, then they will likely be breaking ground on a Casino resort in Las Vegas pretty soon. All in all, it is good to see that business and marketing is indeed being taught to our youth, even if it was at the expense of my waistline and hard earned money.
The Girl Scout website is here and you can locate those delectable, over priced cookies here. It is a good cause, I think!!! Girl scout picture from here and no it was not this Girl Scout that sold me the cookies, if it were I would have bought 400 boxes and been divorced.
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Lately I have been getting people knocking on my door asking whether I would like to buy magazine to donate to charity. The magazines are exorbitantly priced. After I bought one and read the details, I realized they are not related to any charity and they are simply selling you the magazines and profit from it.
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