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Spirit Box Certification Breakdown
Become a Spirit Box Certified Team by completing a business plan, operating plan, and marketing plan. Build a thriving business while providing your students with real world experiences. This Certification aligns with Spirit Box Academy and is the perfect post-assessment for each unit.
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!
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.
Introduction to Management
Management is responsible for overseeing and controlling all aspects of a business. They are responsible for ensuring that workers under their management get done.
5 Steps on: Presenting & Advocating for Your Spirit Box
Before you make a pitch to your administration for your Spirit box, it is important to do your research and create a plan. Joining the Spirit Box community is an investment that is important to think through. It is not easy starting a business, especially in a high school environment so we have broken it down into four steps that are paired with lessons, activities, PowerPoints, and articles to help you get started.
Outshine Your Competition with These 4 Tips
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.
Celebrating CTE Month ®
It is time to celebrate CTE Month! CTE does so much for Spirit Box Teams and DECA.
“Career and Technical Education Month®, or CTE Month®, is a public awareness campaign that takes place each February to celebrate the value of CTE and the achievements and accomplishments of CTE programs across the country.” (Association for Career & Technical Education)
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.