Spirit Box Tips & Tricks
We share ongoing updates, ideas and solutions from other Spirit Box school stores.
Hiring the Right People: In your future career
Finding the right people for the job you are filling is essential for running a smooth and efficient operation. If you hire the wrong person, this can be detrimental to your business.
This person needs to be passionate about the work you are doing and align with your business’s values and goals. Does the perfect person exist? Of course not! However, if your team is patient and effective in asking good questions as well as outlining your expectations you will find someone amazing!
Bringing 21st Century Skills to Your Classroom
In the last 20 years, our world rapidly changed. The internet boomed, technology advanced, and our world and jobs adapted. These rapid changes lead many schools to pivot to teaching 21st century skills in the classroom.These skills break down into 3 main areas of focus: learning skills, literacy skills, and life skills.
How to Price your Products in your School Based Enterprise
Pricing products as a new business always comes with a challenge of wondering how do other businesses land on the cost of their goods? Should you mirror what other businesses are doing or raise or lower your prices? The first step is to establish your baseline of your cost of goods.
10 Tips for Your Social Media and How to Apply it to Your SBE
Social media is a prominent part of our lives now. It’s how we connect with people all over the world, stay in contact with family and friends who are far, and how businesses market their products and services.
How to Create a Schedule for Yourself and Organize Your Life
It is never too early to start learning how to create a schedule for yourself. In just a few short years, your parents will not be the ones creating your schedule. You will be off in college with several classes a week with lots of homework, projects, readings, hanging out with friends, and joining extracurricular activities.
Letting Fear Paralyze Creativity: 4 Ted Talks to help this NOT happen
Oftentimes when people hear the word “creativity” they associate it with the arts. If you aren’t a painter, writer, or musician...that must mean you aren’t creative right? Not at all. Every person has the ability to be creative. You can be creative in your job, in projects, in how you spend money, or even how you plan your day. Creativity simply means the use of the imagination or original ideas.
Spirit Box Academy & What to Expect
To be honest, we are just a team of entrepreneurs hoping to give the next generation the best tools to succeed so they have an advantage as they enter the ‘real world’. We know that teachers are the role models students will remember, and Spirit Box Academy has been developed to support them with relevant tools to help make the biggest, longest lasting impression possible.
School Highlight: Chantilly High School Shares Their Success, Challenges, and How They Plan to Adjust to COVID19
Chantilly High School is located in Chantilly Virginia with around 2,800 students. We called their team to hear their challenges, solutions, and ideas to help fuel your school based enterprise (SBE) or school store. Joining us to talk about their team were students Haerin, Nitya, and Emma as well as their advisor, Karyn Jones. The Chantilly team has a school kiosk, a coffee shop, and a Spirit Box to sell their goods.
Establishing Your Target Market
The target market of your business is your ideal customer based on the product or services you are offering. Depending on the business, there may be more than one target market but it is important to establish your primary target market.
Understanding Your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities for Growth, and Potential Threats
In your personal life or within a team or company, it is important to assess your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for growth, and threats. Being aware of what you are good at versus what you could improve on is what will push you towards success.