Spirit Box Tips & Tricks
We share ongoing updates, ideas and solutions from other Spirit Box school stores.
How to expand your Spirit Box Business: In your school and into your community
What would it look like if you grew your Spirit Box business from one machine to multiple machines to place around the school? On top of that, what would it look like if you became the only vending machine company in the school? Knock out your competition!
All of the vending revenue goes to your Spirit Box Teams and your school.
A hands on learning experience that provides real world skills to high school students.
No contracts from other vending companies restricting what you can put in your vending machine. This will lead your business to be more successful and bring more revenue in.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Spirit Box Academy & What to Expect
To be honest, we are just a team of entrepreneurs hoping to give the next generation the best tools to succeed so they have an advantage as they enter the ‘real world’. We know that teachers are the role models students will remember, and Spirit Box Academy has been developed to support them with relevant tools to help make the biggest, longest lasting impression possible.
School Highlight: Chantilly High School Shares Their Success, Challenges, and How They Plan to Adjust to COVID19
Chantilly High School is located in Chantilly Virginia with around 2,800 students. We called their team to hear their challenges, solutions, and ideas to help fuel your school based enterprise (SBE) or school store. Joining us to talk about their team were students Haerin, Nitya, and Emma as well as their advisor, Karyn Jones. The Chantilly team has a school kiosk, a coffee shop, and a Spirit Box to sell their goods.
Reading the Vendor Contract By: Tyler Hunter, Spirit Box Alum
Whether you already have a Spirit Box, are looking to get one, or you are looking to grow, the first thing you should always do is read your school’s vendor contract. A vendor contract is an agreement between the school and a company essentially saying that the school will only buy certain products from this company.
Conflict Resolution on Your Team
Every team, friendship, and relationship has conflict. Conflict is inevitable but it is how we handle the conflict when it happens. Addressing an issue immediately and before it grows often can result in quicker resolution. Have you had an issue with a teammate and not known what to do? Well, buckle up and let’s go!