
Spirit Box Tips & Tricks
We share ongoing updates, ideas and solutions from other Spirit Box school stores.

Free Resource Highlights
Each week, we create new articles and free worksheets to help students learn about business and apply it to their School Based Enterprise or Spirit Box. Below we have compiled all of our resources in one easy to access location.

Spirit Box Academy: Curriculum Overview
Within Spirit Box Academy, there are 3 units, 5 modules within each unit, and a growing lesson library around each module. Under each module there are lesson plans, activities, PowerPoints, worksheets, case studies, and blog posts. Within the module there are level 1 (introduction to the concepts) and level 2 (advanced students who are applying what they have learned to their Spirit Box or School Based Enterprise) lessons.
Annual Spirit Team Revenue Report: 2020-2021 School Year
Between all of our Spirit Box schools, our community made over $130,000 across the country. All of this money staying in your schools and going towards your programming. Congratulations on an amazing year even with the bumps along the way!

The Deconstruction of Scaling a Business
The company starts with one person (the founder and CEO). Like any company, it was founded upon the solution for an unsolved problem that they want solved in the marketplace.
Competitive Advantage: Setting your Business Apart
Studying the competition helps you choose the most viable and innovative tactics and best practices to create and maintain a competitive advantage with a strong potential for profit. If you’re not better than your competitors in some way, there’s no reason for consumers to choose you.
Market Strategy for your Spirit Box
Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.

Creating a Plan to Operate a Smooth Business
An operations plan is a part of the overall logistical plan of a company. An operations plan is a written document created to organize, plan, and coordinate activities across business functions.

Everything You Need to Know About Production
Production within a business is essentially all of the components of running, operating, producing, and distributing goods or services.
Building a Brand and Reaching Your Customers
Marketing is the activity and processes for: creating, communicating, and delivering offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners and society at large.
A sales and marketing strategy within a business is your plan for reaching, engaging, and converting your target market into profitable customers. The goal behind marketing is to promote your product or service in return achieving sales and revenue.

The Business of Making Money
Having a strong understanding of your finances is absolutely essential for running a business. So where do you start?