Hi and welcome to Forbes Talks I'm Maggie McGrath the editor of Forbes Women and we are

coming at you from the Nasdaq market site and I am so excited to have the

chief revenue officer of Girl Scouts of the USA.

Wendy Lou here with us today.

Wendy, thank you so much for coming to us.

I know it is your busiest season.

Thank you for having me.

So I want to start with the questions everyone wants to know.

Are Girl Scout cookies on sale right now and how long do people have to buy them?

Yes, that's a very important question and yes we've kicked off nationally our

Girl Scout cookie season but every local area has different timing for

their cookie program so if you want to find out if your Girl Scouts are selling cookies in your area, go check

out Girl Scout cookies.org. That's the best place to find out. But yes, our girls are out there,

both online and their digital channels, as well as in person.

We'll talk about some of those digital channels, because I know they're using some interesting

selling techniques.

But how long does girls season go?

Is there a hard deadline

that everyone has to get their orders in by?

So again, it's sort of every council

makes their own decision as to the timing of their sale.

But generally, most councils are in sale around January to March so that's the key

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