Crystalise is a new business that my partners and I have decided to carry out. It is a candle business that will contain Amethyst chips, an essential oil scent, and an extra surprise inside. At the moment my group and I have collected our loan (of $60) and we are now slowly starting to buy products. We should be able to make the majority of our products in the next couple of weeks. I think at the moment we are struggling to have any enthusiasm for our new project, just because our last project was more interesting and there was so much more for us to do. We have though created a new Instagram account for our business (@crystalisebusiness), which has had lots of requests to purchase our product, which is helping our business grow. The biggest issues our group is having are staying within our budget and finding a place to actually make our product.
11/11/21
The Crystalise business is on the way to making our candles (we are planning to start making them by next week). We accomplished lots of things today and we were able to prepare our tags, update our money sheets, and plan an official date to make our product. Our biggest issue this week was trying to find things for us to do/complete, I feel that next week because we will have bought our products and made them it will give us something to work on during class.
$20 Boss was an amazing experience for me. The project was meant to make us use our business and creative skills in 20 weeks to create a business and sell a product/s. I was bursting with ideas when I started that I thought would appeal to my target audience (which was the All Saints’ College students). I worked in a partner-ship and we all eventually came up with the idea that we should create a food product that would last a long time, thats when we came up with the idea to make rocky road. My original goals were to make a business that was ethical and have a product that people really liked. During the experience I relied on many capabilities including problem solving and organisation, I defiantly need to work on effective communication skills because I feel that I didn’t always explain things to my group the best.
My group and I decided to draw out our prototypes so we knew what to expect.
When my group decided that we would make our business, “Chocolicious” that would make and sell rocky road we started creating and working on our idea immediately. We decided that we wanted to make rocky road because we liked the idea that it would appeal to students because it is sweet and delicious and it would be aimed at anyone, we also thought that are business idea was clever because it was cost effective and we knew it would appeal to the All Saints’ audience. My group and I faced lots of challenges during our project, including whether we had enough products to sell and the frustration of cutting and gluing our labels, we over came these issues by working together and pushing through to complete our tasks. During the design process we worked really well at our prototypes and ideas, this helped us get a vision of what our products would look like. Once our business starting moving along we decided to do a survey and ask people in our classes whether they would buy our rocky road if we sold it at certain price, people weren’t fully convinced so we knew we would have to do something to entice them into buying. We told people in our classes and our friends to come to us at Lunch time and try our rocky road for free, if they liked the product they could pre-order and that would ensure that they would definitley get a piece of our rocky road at the market. We made $145 just from pre-orders, this meant we had to make a minimum 29 bags, we were a bit nervous about the amount of orders we had and how many people said they were so excited to buy/ receive a bag at the market, we knew we had a lot to do.
Here is a picture of my group and I working on the our logos and business cards. This was a frustrating process but was worth it.
On the day of the market, we had around 80 rocky roads to sell and in one hour we sold every single product. We were really organised on the day we each were in charge of doing jobs including writing down who had bought what, handing out our rocky road, talking to the customers and restocking our rocky roads when the table didn’t look full enough. We only had two feedback sheets filled in but they were really good feedback giving us 5/5 ratings. We were really impressed with what we achieved and were really happy with also the skill we had learnt during this amazing process. During Term 2 I would really like to keep going with the business and expand, we also want to listen to our feedback from the customers and add a more diverse selection to Chocolicious’s products .
This is our stall at the market. We decided that we would wear pink because we thought it might entice people to come have a look at our products.
The capabilities helped me be guided to make the right decisions to create a better business
When I was younger, I tried Kumon (maths class) I did it for 2 years and did not like it and I was never good at it. Whenever I went to the class I never tried because I did not understand it and they never really helped so I didn’t see the point in trying. I learned that if I had opened my mind a bit more, I would have been able to learn more skills which would have made it easier for more in the coming years when math became harder.
Growth Mind Set
When I started roller skating, I always fell and tripped, now I can skate relatively well without falling as much. When I told myself that I could skate and kept trying it gave me more resilience, it also gave me the confidence to try. I learned a lot from this experience like that I should never give up on an activity even if it is challenging and how to roller skate.
