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Track students in the book

After the book arrives, it can be frustrating to realize a handful of students ended up all over the book. If you’ve never kept track or want a better system, here are suggestions for tracking

Middle school yearbook staffers named finalists in three categories

Three Balfour schools were recently named finalists in the National Scholastic Press Association’s middle school competition

National Buy Your Yearbook Day 2019: Here are the winners!

WOW! It was another incredible National Buy Your Yearbook Day! Wednesday was full of amazing contest entries, and we’re excited to announce the winners of our contests! Every year we’re inspired and

National Buy Your Yearbook Day contests: Here's how to enter

It’s time for our annual National Buy Your Yearbook Day contests! We’re excited to share the four categories and how to enter the contests.

Twenty theme ideas for 2020

It’s a once in a millennium moment. We won’t have a repeating double digit year again for a thousand years. If you were planning a 2020-related theme, we have a vision for you. Advisers have been

2019 National Yearbook Week: Here are the winners!

National Yearbook Week was a wonderful chance to celebrate yearbook staffs and the importance of yearbooks. The week was full of great contest entries (especially in the munchie category!) and we’re

Get ready for NBYYD on October 23rd!

Get ready! It’s coming! National Buy Your Yearbook Day is Wednesday, Oct. 23. We created this annual event as a special day of the school year to focus specifically on yearbook sales, and build

Do you keep your commission checks?

From time to time, we share relevant conversations from our Balfour Advisers Facebook group. This post focuses on commission checks from portrait companies. Some comments have been edited for space

Monthly Marketing Magic

Everyone see the lovely yearbooks? Now, watch them disappear! Ah, if only it was as easy as a magic trick. But we can become yearbook magicians with a little marketing magic. In this two-part post,

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