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Gulf Stream Council
2020 Popcorn Kick-off
Text FACEBOOK to 62771 to join
our community today!
Join Scout leaders across the country to
share best practices and new ideas!
It’s For The Scouts
2019 Total Sales: $724,000
2019 Unit Commissions: $261,000
• Plus an additional $50,000 in prizes awarded
• Units used funds for camping, activities, equipment and much more!!!
• Council funds were used to support program, developments at camp, leader training and much
more!!!
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Trail’s End Programs
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community today!
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Trail’s End App
SAVE TIME MANAGING YOUR SALE!
The app is for Scouts to track storefront, wagon, and online sales. They can
accept cash and credit cards, track inventory and schedule storefront shifts.
FREE CREDIT CARD PROCESSING
Powered by Square | Paid by Trail’s End
• Every Scout, every sale will receive free payment processing.
• Compatible with all Square Readers (not required to take credit cards).
PROVEN RESULTS
• Over 14,500+ Units and 160,000+ Scouts sold with the app.
• Credit Card sales averaged 20% higher than cash transactions.
• Over 9% growth for units that recorded more than 75% of sales in the app in 2019!
• Increase since 30% of Americans do not carry cash and half of those who do
have less than $20
Trail’s End App
Point of Sale Payment Storefront Scheduling Sale Tracking
Trail’s End App
Improvements Based Upon Leader Feedback
Faster…easier…simpler…time saver
• Rebuilt in Google Flutter.
• Faster Scout registration; Takes less than 1 minute.
• Checkout … 9 clicks to 4 by streamlining and eliminating extra steps.
• New Online Direct in TE App.
• Sell face-to-face, swipe a card, ship online products directly to consumer.
• Consolidated Scout and storefront views, reporting and actions.
• Fewer clicks to find information and take action.
• Simpler inventory views by storefront and by Scout.
• Re-associate storefront orders between shifts for easier managing sale.
Trail’s End App Demo
Trail’s End App Demo
Trail’s End App
2020
2019
Trail’s End App
10Popcorn Kernel Portal: Demo
Trail’s End App Training
Over 150 Webinars in 2020
Every Question Asked…Every Question Answered!Online Sales Products
Trail’s End Product Mix
(Recommended)
$60 $35 $25 $25 $20
Chocolate Lover’s Cheese Lover’s Chocolatey Salted Caramel Unbelievable Butter
Collection Tin Collection Box Caramel Crunch Microwave
Products
$20 $20 $10 $50 $30
Blazin’ Hot White Cheddar Classic Caramel Gold Military Silver Military
Popcorn Corn Donation DonationTrail’s End Product Mix
(Recommended)
$15 $20
Salted Peanuts Honey Roasted
ProductsTrail’s End Rewards
SCOUTS BUY THE PRIZES THEY WANT WITH AN
AMAZON.COM GIFT CARD
BENEFITS FOR LEADERS
• Submit for rewards when your unit is finished selling
• Save time by not collecting prize orders from your Scouts
• Leaders reported saving as much as 6 hours of time
• Save effort by no longer distributing physical prizes
• Happier Scouts sell more by setting personal goals.
BENEFITS FOR SCOUTS
• Higher prize values and uncapped levels
• Millions of prizes to choose on Amazon.com
• Prizes delivered directly to your door faster than ever before
• 7 New levels to motivate Scouts
• Ease of claiming reward through the improved app.Trail’s End Rewards
Coming in 2020
More levels!
Higher values!
More Choices!Council Level Reward
Trail’s End Communities
CREATED & MANAGED BY POPCORN KERNELS
FACEBOOK GROUPS
• Over 18,000 members
• 5% growth for units who were on Facebook group
• 60%+ of the popcorn sale is on the site
• Scouts & Leaders get fast, accurate answers to their questions 24/7
• 1,300 posts & comments and 3,600 reactions per day (during the sale)
• Unit leaders and Scout parents get real-time best practices and answers from peers and Trail’s End
experts 24/7.
• Get the support you need from your peers!
Text FACEBOOK to 62771 to join our community
today!
Join Scout leaders across the country to share best practices and new ideas!Planning
SET YOUR GOAL
• Plan for an entire year of Scouting programs.
• Plan to fund the entire year with one fundraiser.
Less time fundraising = more time Scouting
• Set a per Scout goal and break it down to hours.
• The average Scout sells $125 per hour
BUILD A TEAM
• Shared ideas, shared efforts.
• Prevent leader burnout and spread out the
workload
• Pass down tribal knowledge. Have a plan for your
successor.Storefront Sales
SELL AT STOREFRONTS
• One Scout per 2-Hour Shift to maximize you hourly
sales.
• Forces parental involvement
• Use every store in your area that has heavy foot
traction.
• Plan on $100 per hour in sales, schedule the
number of shift according to your goal.
• Great way to recruit young people to join
Scouting.at the Storefront!
• We’re already selling Scouting.
• Have flyers and Scouting promo materialsPersonal Sales ONLINE SALES • Every Scout creates their own person fundraising page. • Average order is $67 vs. $25 for traditional sale. • All sales count for the rewards program. • No face-to-face contact, no product of money to handle. DOOR TO DOOR • Sell to your close neighbors and friends • Scouts have averaged $250 per hour in sales • Have product on hand so no need to go back to delivery. Use the app to manage the sale. • Scouts can take a credit card, fees paid by Trail’s End, for higher sales. FRIENDS, FAMILY, WORKPLACE • Use the app to take and manage orders. • Using the online platform, no handling of product. Take the order and Trail’s End ships direct.
Motivating Scouts
SCOUT MOTIVATION
• Get every Scout engaged to earn his or her own way.
• Set a Goal per Scout based upon funding their entire program
year.
• Don’t forget about camp.
• Offer your own incentives in addition to what the council is
offering.
• Incentive for Scouts who reach their goals.
PARENT BUY-IN
• Teaching Scouts life lessons
• No out of pocket expenses to the family.
• Many ways of selling, whatever is best for the family.
KICKOFF
• Needs to be informative. Remind everyone why we are
participating.
• WE’RE SELLING SCOUTING
• Get everyone to buy into the goal.
• Make it FUN!Key Dates
KEY DATES TO REMEMBER
Show-N-Sell One 8/29/2020
Orders Due
Show-N-Sell One 9/17/2020-9/18/2020
Distribution
Show-N-Sell 10/19/2020-
Payments & 10/23-2020
Returns
Take Order Due 10/30/2020
Take Order 11/19/2020-
Distribution 11/20/2020
Payment Due to 11/19/2020-
Council 11/20/2020Commission
Ordering and Transfers
ORDER WISELY
• Make sure you are ordering cases/containers correctly. Cases
on the first order and containers on the second.
• Re-orders-if you are running low on product contact your District
Kernel or District Executive. Don’t wait till the last minute.
TRANSFERS
• Stay in communication with your fellow units. You have the
ability through the leader portal to transfer product, so you do
not end up with excess.
• Transfers are done from unit to unit not through council.
• Your district Kernel or District Executive can assist with transfers
• Make sure the transfer is completed on both ends. It will reflect
on your invoice.Returns and Payments
RETURNS
• A unit can return up to 10% of your Show and Sell order during
the assigned dates.
• Returns will not be accepted after October 23rd because all
returns are used to fill the second order.
• Re-orders-if you are running low on produce contact your
PAYMENTS
• CC payments taken through the app are credited towards your
final invoice.
• Online Payments are credited towards your final invoice.
• Show and sell payments are due before October 23rd. Late
payments may affect your commission
• Final payments are due by November 20th. Late payments may
affect your commission.Contact Info
Everglades District
Kimberly Schoolcraft
COUNCIL CONTACT INFO TRAILS END SUPPORT (561) 601-0502
kkschoolcraft@gmail.com
Shanna Richardson: Staff Advisor Facebook Group Lighthouse District:
Marissa Murren
Shanna.Richardson@scouting.org facebook.com/groups/TEPopcornCommunity (561) 537-1958
321-576-7556 Riss10@live.com
Trail’s End App Support
Sailfish/ Big Lake District:
teappsupport@trails-end.com Danielle Batton
Popcorn website (772) 341-5106
daniellecoburn@att.net
www.Gulfstreamcouncil.org/popcorn General Support
support@trails-end.com Treasure Coast District:
Dolores Jenson
(772) 579-6395
busymom1702@gmail.com
Indian River District:
Athary Koning
(772) 203-7484
Athary.Koning@Scouting.orgThank You!
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