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.
Vision Planning
Laying out our vision says we believe that tomorrow will be better than today; that if we work together, we can make great things happen.
SMART Goals
A “SMART Goal” is a strategy that will help you to dissect your goal into measurable metrics. For example, a SMART Goal would be, “Our team would like to consistently increase our monthly revenue of our Spirit Box by 5% before the end of May through increasing our marketing efforts by creating social media accounts for our Spirit Box. The additional funds will go towards our DECA programming.”
SWOT Analysis
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.
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.
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 away, and how businesses market their products and services.
Presentation Preparation
You hear the words “presentation” and immediately your heart starts to race. We’ve all been there right? Most of us need a bit more training on calming those fears when presenting to a room of people. You are not alone in this fear and we are here to help ease the presentation anxiety.
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.
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.
Blog 1 & 2 & Free Resource
Diversity and Inclusivity
Growing your knowledge for different cultures, religions, genders, races, ethnicities, and other characteristics or cultural expressions that you do not identify with will not only improve your career but will improve our world as a whole.
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ― Maya Angelou
Contingency Planning & Risk Management
This has been a very uneasy year with the growth of COVID19. Our country is slowly filling with more anxiety around the spread of this virus; anxiety for our health and for our economy. As business owners, for the health of our business, we must have a plan of action for how we keep our business afloat during a time like this. Specifically, for a Spirit Box business, many schools are extending breaks as well as moving to remote teaching for the rest of the semester. What can your team do during this time of uncertainty? A great start is to create a contingency plan.
Customer Service
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.
Taking your customers for granted is probably the worst thing you can do in your business. It’s time to vamp up your customer service with these 5 tips.
Our hope with these resources is that they help you grow in your Spirit Box team and as a future business professional. Take your education a step further and go beyond what you learn in the classroom. A strong leader is always learning. Read all of our blog posts on our website. For our Spirit Box teams, log into your resource portal to access all resources.