StreetsU is a six-week enterprise development initiative that helps interested youth explore the mechanics of web development by learning WordPress, they learn the principles of effective salesmanship, and it is to foster other essential career and work-related soft skills.
Your Responsibilities as a Student
- Dressing appropriate
- Putting in your best effort
- Ask questions from your advisor, mentors and sponsors
- Know your product or service and any benefits to the customer
- Be knowledgeable about the company providing the product
- Closing the sale in a professional and courteous manner
- Completing product order forms and providing accurate commission calculations
- Setting goals and meeting them
- Setting and meeting deadlines
- Obtain at least one business sponsor/mentor
- Being a positive example for other younger youth in the community
IBSA Income Opportunity Program Process & Procedure
1. Identify business prospect
2. Contact business owner by phone or in person to schedule an interview on their business and presentation about your participation in the program
3. Attend your scheduled meeting, ask questions and conduct yourself in a professional manner. * Don’t be late, call in advance to reschedule if you can’t make it, and don’t bring friends or family in to your interview
4. Explain your participation in the program, service(s)/product(s) you are offering including benefits and features, and answer any questions, * Ask the business owner to sponsor you by purchasing one (or more) of the services you presented.
5. If you close a deal and signup a business, take them online through your student portal to sign them up. If they don’t have Internet access use the print receipt provided; or you can use a Smartphone to complete payments online
6. Remember to thank them for their time and business if they choose to sponsor you with a purchase; or if they decline. * Remember to ask for referrals to another business, and if you can visit with them again from time to time with other products or services you may be selling throughout the year
7. To complete your required tasks, draft and mail a print receipt made on or offline, create the online business profile(s), and have a program advisor or instructor review your work before it goes live online
* You can now get paid for your work and effort.
** Repeated business comes to those who are prepared, courteous, prompt and professional.
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Advisor/Mentor Responsibilities
Mentors and Advisors Are Expected To Give Our enterprising students advice on:
- How to obtain business or community support
- Other products available for sale or products/services they can provide or do
- How to find program sponsors and customers
- How to seize opportunity at special events
- How to calculate commissions on products sold
- Special events they will have an opportunity to make money; by applying the salesmanship skills learned throughout the program
- Getting help and advice from other community resources
- Nominations for Awards: Local, State & National
- Information on scholarships and other financial aid
For More Information
913-735-4272
