Three Free Tools to Create a High-Impact Spirit Box Pitch
Is your high school business team interested in bringing Spirit Box to your class? Great! We are excited to help your team bring a real-world business opportunity to other students through the program. You will likely need to pitch Spirit Box to your school administrators so they can help provide buy-in for the budget and resources needed to start. They may or may not have heard of Spirit Box, so it is important to design and deliver a high-impact pitch that will demonstrate the value of Spirit Box to your team. Below we are going to discuss three free online tools you can use to create a high-impact pitch they will remember!
Canva
Canva is a well-loved, all-in-one design tool for media, graphics, videos, presentations and more. With thousands of pre-made templates and design capabilities, it is both easy and free to use for a variety of projects.
You can choose from a variety of presentation templates to adapt for your presentation. Choosing to create a professional and put-together presentation will demonstrate that you and your team take the opportunity seriously.
If you need to do your presentation remotely, Canva has a built-in recording studio which makes it easy to incorporate your presentation video over the presentation slides. You will show up as a small circle in the corner of the screen and you can record the video or present your slides live.
Most of Canva’s capabilities are free, except for some graphic and video assets, resizing designs and a few others. Even despite these, there are plenty of options within the free options for a presentation.
Google Forms
Google Forms is one app that comes with a free Google account. You can access it if you have a Google email account. Google Forms are a simple and easy way to collect information or sign-ups through a link.
To create a high-impact pitch, one strategy you could incorporate is the use of student stories. If your team is pitching to expand Spirit Box, you can use the form to gather current Spirit Box student stories from their experiences with the program through a few simple questions. Each team member will have different experiences related to the areas in which they worked during the year, such as financial management, customer service, etc. Gathering perspectives of others and the moments they felt were most critical to the success of the team can help you tailor your presentation for impact.
If your business team has not yet incorporated Spirit Box, no problem! You could gather success or learning stories from your classmates and then link it back to how Spirit Box could help build upon the momentum you already have. Using Google forms could be a simple way to collect multiple stories at one time, as well as save them for future presentations and use.
Mentimeter
Mentimeter is a unique tool that gets the audience involved in the presentation. Mentimeter incorporates ways for you to ask the audience questions and get their ideas and feedback in real time, through polls, word clouds, multiple choice questions and more.
You can also build regular presentation slides into these tools to avoid switching between apps during the meeting. One way you could use this tool for a high-impact presentation is to ask a question of the audience and get their initial responses through a word cloud. A word cloud creates a visual representation of the audience’s answers by frequency. The more often a word or phrase is used, the larger it will be.
Perhaps you could ask the meeting audience to list words they would like to describe the business department at the school at the beginning. Then, throughout the presentation, link different stories and opportunities back to these words to demonstrate how Spirit Box will help be the bridge to reaching those words.
Pitches are usually not very long, so the free limit on mentimeter of just a couple of questions should be more than enough.
Get the audience involved in the pitch with Menti and create excitement around your team’s journey with Spirit Box.
Mentimeter word Cloud
