{"id":2795,"date":"2017-03-02T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2017-02-27T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T18:32:02","slug":"girl-scouts-hilariously-honest-cookie-reviews-lead-to-record-breaking-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/girl-scouts-hilariously-honest-cookie-reviews-lead-to-record-breaking-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Scout\u2019s Hilariously Honest Cookie Reviews Lead to Record-breaking Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>McKinley Corbley from GoodNewsNetwork writes:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte McCourt believes that honesty is the best policy \u2013 that\u2019s why she wrote\u00a0astonishingly blunt reviews of every Girl Scout cookie for her customers.<\/p>\n<p>The 11-year-old gave\u00a0the Do Si Do cookie a 5\u00a0out of 10\u00a0score because of its\u00a0\u201cbland, unoriginal flavor\u201d. Her most scathing 1\/10 review was for the Toffeetastic; saying that it was \u201ca bleak, flavorless, gluten-free wasteland\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Now one might think that being 100% honest about a product you\u2019re trying to sell isn\u2019t the best method of making money. But as it turns out, Charlotte broke a Girl Scout cookie selling record.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte had been aiming to use this full-disclosure policy to help her sell at least 300 boxes. However, because customers were so intrigued by the Girl Scout\u2019s honesty, she managed to sell over 23,000 boxes.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>WATCH<\/strong> the video below)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YuGjDIfYZUY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title td-page-title\">McKinley Corbley is the Editor and writer for GNN; part-time circus junkie; and part-time English student in community college. Enjoys feminism, bad puns, travel, and copious amounts of stomach-ache inducing pasta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title td-page-title\"><em>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/girl-scouts-hilariously-honest-cookie-reviews-lead-record-breaking-sales\/<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKinley Corbley from GoodNewsNetwork writes:\u00a0 Charlotte McCourt believes that honesty is the best policy \u2013 that\u2019s why she wrote\u00a0astonishingly blunt reviews of every Girl Scout cookie for her customers. The 11-year-old gave\u00a0the Do Si Do cookie a 5\u00a0out of 10\u00a0score because of its\u00a0\u201cbland, unoriginal flavor\u201d. Her most scathing 1\/10 review was for the Toffeetastic; saying&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[76,563,562,564],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-news","tag-cookies","tag-girl-scout","tag-girl-scout-cookies","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}