The Colophon - Balfour Yearbooks Blog

As the school year marches on, it is more important than ever to grow your yearbook sales. Determining who hasn’t bought a yearbook and targeting those students will help you reach your sales goal.

Let’s face it, life is stressful. And life for a yearbook adviser can double or triple that stress level. If we don’t manage our stress and take care of ourselves, someone else may end up taking care

February is one of the busiest months for yearbook production and deadlines. It is also a great time to run an index as a sales and coverage tool.

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s the perfect time to take a little yearbook break and share a lot of love with your staff.February 14th is a good excuse to show affection and thankfulness

A yearbook is a historical document that will last a lifetime and beyond. So everything you’re putting on the pages will always be there...including the mistakes. Here’s how you can take extra

Think about it. The average high school student spends 5.8 hours in class each school day. Another 35 minutes at lunch and 15 minutes for class changes round out the rest of the school day. So if 89%

Whether you’re racing to the finish line or in the thick of it, deadlines can stress out the staff. For spring books, the coming days are imperative. Finish your book or miss delivery day. For fall

We’re not talking about Getting Sturdy or Hitting the Griddy. We’re talking signature completion so your pages can dance their way through the presses.

The Columbia Scholastic Press Association honored 9 Balfour schools as 2023 Crown Finalists. CSPA announced the yearbook finalists on Twitter and their website.

That phrase might make an adviser a little nervous because captions can sometimes take a while to complete. From gathering the background information, setting up interviews with the people in the

You did it! They did it! You’re meeting deadlines, flowing class photos in and wrapping up the fall sports pages. With a big project like the yearbook, it’s important to reward achievements along the

...Really Do Have Something in Common In most grocery and department stores, Christmas decorations are up before Halloween has even passed. A few might wait until November 1, like Starbucks who