Spirit Box Tips & Tricks
We share ongoing updates, ideas and solutions from other Spirit Box school stores.
Starting a Business or School Based Enterprise? Tips to Help You Secure Funding.
The last step of launching your business is to fund it. As we learned from calculating your startup costs, starting a business is expensive. There are costs to launching your business and annual expenses that you will need to pay.
Before Starting a Business...do this first...
How does a business start? If we break it down all the way back to where the idea formed, a business is formed based around a problem that we want to solve. Then you must ask yourself, how much will it cost to launch your business and how much will your monthly costs be?
Market Research: When Starting your School Based Enterprise
Before you start a business you need to ask yourself, is my business needed or wanted? It is incredibly important to not assume that it is and do research before dedicating yourself to a business that will not succeed. There are two steps to take before diving in; complete market research and a competitive analysis.
Business Planning 101: Tips to Help Your Business Thrive
A business is created through solving a problem. This doesn’t have to be some earth shattering problem. The problem might be better lighting for a TikTok video. A problem was discovered and an idea was born. Look around your home and the products you have. What problem do they solve?
Once you have an idea for your business, it’s time to create a business plan. Running a sustainable and profitable business is no easy feat. It is so important to create a plan and to think through the details of your business.
Entrepreneurs can have great ideas, a great work ethic, and a lot of confidence. But it’s what they don’t have that often leads to failure:
Thanking your Team: Gratitude Goes a Long Way
You are working on a team and doing a job that you love. You are putting in 110% and doing work you are proud of. You work late because you are excited about the work you are doing and want the company to succeed. The company or organization you work for is seeing excellent results from the work you are doing. You are overcome with pride and fulfillment...but your team? Your boss? No one recognizes your hard work. Your boss gives you another assignment without showing any gratitude for helping grow the company. They don’t even acknowledge the extra hours you put in.
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.