Competitive advantage is what sets your business, product, or service apart from the rest. It is a core element of business success, so it must become a focus of your business operations. Read below to learn more about competitive advantage and how it must connect to your Spirit Box team’s overall vision!

A contingency plan might not be the first thing you think of when it comes to Spirit Box planning for the school year, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t critical. What are contingency plans? Why does your team need one? Keep reading to learn more! 

A team vision can unite your new Spirit Box team and generate excitement for the work ahead. When your team rallies around the same goal, it turns the everyday tasks into meaningful actions. Refining a team vision takes more than simply sitting around a table and throwing out ideas. Creating a truly motivating vision takes time and intention. If you’re ready to help jump-start your team excitement, take a look at our tips for how to host an effective team planning session below. 

Spirit Box is a turn-key solution to teach students real-world business skills before they graduate. Each Spirit Box comes with access to a comprehensive curriculum to teach different aspects of business throughout the year. Below you will find a step-by-step guide to implementing this curriculum throughout the year—including how to become a certified Spirit Box team. 

A new school year is on the way, which means a new year of operating Spirit Box! As the new year begins, we’ve compiled a few tips you can implement to help your team get off to a great start. 

You are working on a team and doing a job that you love. You are putting in 110%. You are proud of your work. You work late because you are excited about your work and want the company to succeed. Your company or organization 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. No one acknowledges your extra hours and effort. 

When you get ready to move out there will be new responsibilities you may or may not have managed before. See Part 1 for some of these responsibilities related to tasks in the house. In this article, we’re going to delve into some of the responsibilities outside of your house. Mastering these skills will help you take steps toward your future!

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! 

Parents can be great at managing the day-to-day tasks needed to keep everyone in the household healthy, fed and ready for each day. You may be aware of some of these tasks (like grocery shopping or putting gas in the car), but some of them might have escaped your notice. If you’re planning to move out after graduation, it will be important for you to take on these tasks so your everyday life can run more smoothly. Don’t worry: It is a challenge at first to remember it all, but over time, you’ll find your own rhythm! 

You can’t do effective sales and marketing without understanding how and why buyers decide to buy the products and services they do. Buyer decision-making trends and behaviors should inform how you market your goods and measure the impact of your efforts. In this article we’ll talk about some of the elements that affect buyers’ decisions.