Spirit Box Tips & Tricks
We share ongoing updates, ideas and solutions from other Spirit Box school stores.
3 Tips to Improve your Communication Skills Today
Communication is how we effectively explain an idea to another person. This can be done in several ways: in-person, telephone, email, texting, video-chat, or professional communication vs. personal. Communication is one of the most important skills to running a successful business or working at any job. And at this day in age, there are about 100 ways we communicate with each other.
Tips for Talking on the Phone
Have you ever made a call where you did not know the other person on the other end and your nerves began to climb? Maybe you had a phone call for a job interview, a sales call for work, or maybe (if you are truly honest) you got nervous ordering a pizza for the first time. The phone starts ringing, cue the heart racing.
Finding Your Own Strengths
Each one of us are unique. No one person is the same. You have your own strengths and weaknesses. The thing is, you can’t be good at everything. That is why most businesses have a variety of people with different skills and abilities.
5 Ways to Dazzle your Customers and Create Raving Fans
Before your customers become your biggest fan, you need to be theirs. The people who support your business are the ones that are pushing your business forward. These are the people who are making your dreams of running a business become a reality.
Part 2: Hiring the Right People for your School Based Enterprise
With your Spirit Box team or your SBE Team, it is important to have a process of replacing members that graduate or leave your team. What kind of person are you looking for? What kind of training process do you have? If you don’t know the answer to this, don’t panic! We have the tools for you and your team.
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.