By Gene Marks
Meet Lilly Bumpus.
Lilly is eight years old. And she’s sold more than 32,000 boxes of Thin Mints, Caramel deLites, Do-si-dos, and S’mores in one year. No, this is not a joke. Lilly holds the single season record for selling Girl Scout cookies. Did I forget to mention she’s eight years old?
“She sold her freaking heart out till the last day of Girl Scout cookie season,” Lilly’s mom, Trish Bauer, told Mercury News on March 21, 2021. “It’s Lilly being Lilly. She does not like somebody telling her something is not possible.”
Moving 32,000 boxes of cookies is a monumental job for even the most experienced salesperson, so you’re probably asking yourself: How in the world did an 8-year-old accomplish this, particularly when most of your salespeople struggle to make their quotas?
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