(Here’s video of Wild and Bryan Freeborn from this morning’s Today Show, 3/13/09).
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about Asheville Girl Scout Wild Freeborn, who, via a YouTube video and some social media savvy, was trying to sell enough boxes of Girl Scout cookies to send her entire troop to GS camp for a week.
I bought 4 boxes from Wild, who told me she ended up selling around 700 total boxes, all to folks in the Asheville area (not enough to send the entire troop to camp, but still impressive). Despite her initiative and business aptitude, the Girl Scouts’ national organization made Wild remove the YouTube video, as they have an archaic rule about not selling on-line (which in truth, Wild wasn’t. No $ went over the Internets).
Two days ago, Newsweek published a story about Wild, which garnered hundreds of comments. Today Wild and her dad, Bryan Freeborn, are heading up to NYC to make an appearance on The Today Show.
Congrats to Wild for trying, inadvertantly, to drag the Girl Scouts into the 21st century. Sometimes, kids really do have the best ideas.
I can’t believe this is actually something people are arguing about.
I know. I got trolled at Mt. X over this issue. Though I’d prefer folks go after me than after an 8-year-old Girl Scout!
You probably watched the interview on the Today Show this morning. It’s national now.
Skip Freddy. He’s just mad that Wild didn’t sell him any cookies.
My daughter and I have sold GSA cookies via the internet, too. Can’t wait for the cookie police to show up at my door. Bunch of slow-moving putzes.
A good follow-up would be a story on how little the girls make for all their efforts to sell a product which is shrinking not only in size but also in quality. All while the hierarchy makes nice living off the efforts of my daughter and other girls just like her.
Oh, and how about a comparison to how the boy scouts do with their product sales? Lemme tell you that my boy scouts get a much better return for their efforts. Probably because so much less lands in the paychecks of a bloated bureaucracy. GSA: top heavy bunch of boobs.
I’m about to try to find The Today Show segment on-line since I live in No-TV land.
This story infuriates me. The Girl Scouts were started to celebrate girls, not breed salespeople. My daughter is a local scout and we are pushed to sell, sell, sell. They don’t learn many positive things from this. How about the media picks up on the Girl Scouts doing something good for their communities? Wouldn’t that be a better use of all our time?
So I was on the elliptical one morning and saw the today show with this GS named Wild Freeborn. My immediate thought was – every GS mom and dad should know you can’t sell online. And then I saw the name, and thought, sounds like an Asheville name. When I then realized the family was from Asheville, I laughed so hard I bout fell off the elliptical!