
Spirit Box Tips & Tricks
We share ongoing updates, ideas and solutions from other Spirit Box school stores.

How to Market Your School Store Products with Seasonal & Holiday Promotions: Part 2
Developing a seasonal and holiday promotion strategy starts with identifying your target customers and the most relevant holidays to them. You can walk through these steps in Part 1 here. In this article, you’ll continue learning about how to then move from calendars to actually identifying the products, offers and more.

How to Market Your School Store Products with Seasonal & Holiday Promotions: Part 1
Seasonal advertising and promotions can help you sell more products by keeping your store top-of-mind and relevant to your customers’ day-to-day life. In this article, you’ll learn about the basics of what it means to implement season and holiday promotions, how to create your plan, and how to keep learning for future years’ sales.

Investing, Self-Funding & Loans: Which is Best for Funding Your Business or School Store?
The last step of launching a business is to secure funding. As you have likely learned from calculating your startup costs, starting a business is expensive. There are costs to launching your business and annual expenses you will need to pay.
The big question to ask yourself is: Where will I get the money? There are many ways to get funding, but we’ll cover three here: investors, self-funding, or loans.

3 Common Trends of Gen Z Compared to Older Generations
Generation Z (or Y) is composed of everyone born between the years of 1996 and 2010. Current high schoolers fit within this generation and Pew Research identified key ways this generation differs from those in the past. You might be part of Generation Z, or perhaps you are an educator who works with Gen Z’s on a regular basis. In this article, we’ll discuss three of these trends.

Videos to Help You Discover What Kind of Work You Want to Do
Below you’ll find just a few videos with concrete steps and reflection questions to help you discover what kind of work you want to do. One video helps you discover the mindsets you’ll need to stick with your dream once you find it!

4 Elements of a Great Job Interview & How to Prepare
Effective interviews require preparation and attention to detail—don’t “wing it”. Below are concrete steps you can take to ensure you're feeling confident when the day comes.

Sales & Marketing 101: Reaching the Right People with the Right Message
Marketing includes all of the activities and processes for: creating, communicating, and delivering offerings that create value for customers, clients, partners and society at large.
A business sales and marketing strategy is your plan for reaching, engaging, and converting your target market into profitable and loyal customers. The goal behind a marketing strategy is to promote your product or service in order to achieve sales and revenue.

How to Describe 5 Spirit Box Skills for a High-impact First Resume
One benefit of implementing the Spirit Box program is the real-world business experience. When you graduate, you will walk away with concrete experiences and not just ideas from books. This can be a great advantage to you as you look for a job and pursue further education. But it will only serve as an advantage if you can communicate it in an effective way to others.

BUSINESS PLANNING 101: TIPS TO HELP YOUR BUSINESS THRIVE
Creating a business is solving a problem. And it doesn’t have to be an earth-shattering problem. The problem might be better lighting for a TikTok video. Or wanting to keep your beverage cool. For every product, someone uncovered a problem and an idea was born. Look around your home and the products you have. What problems do they solve?

3 Easy Ways to Improve Your Creative Thinking This Summer
You might find yourself with some extra time this summer, in between summer job shifts and other responsibilities. Here are three ways to make space for new ways of thinking.