Spirit Box Tips & Tricks
We share ongoing updates, ideas and solutions from other Spirit Box school stores.
Business Planning 101: Tips to Help Your Business Thrive
A business is created through solving a problem. This doesn’t have to be some earth shattering problem. The problem might be better lighting for a TikTok video. A problem was discovered and an idea was born. Look around your home and the products you have. What problem do they solve?
Once you have an idea for your business, it’s time to create a business plan. Running a sustainable and profitable business is no easy feat. It is so important to create a plan and to think through the details of your business.
Entrepreneurs can have great ideas, a great work ethic, and a lot of confidence. But it’s what they don’t have that often leads to failure:
Thanking your Team: Gratitude Goes a Long Way
You are working on a team and doing a job that you love. You are putting in 110% and doing work you are proud of. You work late because you are excited about the work you are doing and want the company to succeed. The company or organization you work for is seeing excellent results from the work you are doing. You are overcome with pride and fulfillment...but your team? Your boss? No one recognizes your hard work. Your boss gives you another assignment without showing any gratitude for helping grow the company. They don’t even acknowledge the extra hours you put in.
3 Tips to Improve your Communication Skills Today
Communication is how we effectively explain an idea to another person. This can be done in several ways: in-person, telephone, email, texting, video-chat, or professional communication vs. personal. Communication is one of the most important skills to running a successful business or working at any job. And at this day in age, there are about 100 ways we communicate with each other.
Tips for Talking on the Phone
Have you ever made a call where you did not know the other person on the other end and your nerves began to climb? Maybe you had a phone call for a job interview, a sales call for work, or maybe (if you are truly honest) you got nervous ordering a pizza for the first time. The phone starts ringing, cue the heart racing.
Finding Your Own Strengths
Each one of us are unique. No one person is the same. You have your own strengths and weaknesses. The thing is, you can’t be good at everything. That is why most businesses have a variety of people with different skills and abilities.
5 Ways to Dazzle your Customers and Create Raving Fans
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.
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.
Hiring the Right People: In your future career
Finding the right people for the job you are filling is essential for running a smooth and efficient operation. If you hire the wrong person, this can be detrimental to your business.
This person needs to be passionate about the work you are doing and align with your business’s values and goals. Does the perfect person exist? Of course not! However, if your team is patient and effective in asking good questions as well as outlining your expectations you will find someone amazing!
Bringing 21st Century Skills to Your Classroom
In the last 20 years, our world rapidly changed. The internet boomed, technology advanced, and our world and jobs adapted. These rapid changes lead many schools to pivot to teaching 21st century skills in the classroom.These skills break down into 3 main areas of focus: learning skills, literacy skills, and life skills.
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.