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Don’t keep secrets: use your yearbook theme on everything!

Clint Small Middle School, Austin, Texas

Incorporate your yearbook theme in your sales campaign. Yes, that’s right. Don’t keep your theme a secret! Using your theme in words, graphics and colors

How to create a totally awesome yearbook

Book bag. Check. √

Pen & Pencils. Check. √

Notebook. Check.

Balfour’s Intensity Workshop. Check. √

It’s a new school year. Be prepared.

Boy Scouts have known it since 1907: Be Prepared. “Prepared for what?” you may ask.

Anything and everything.

Evaluate your yearbook theme in 5 easy steps

Before your staff launches into this year’s production, use the 5 Rs of Theme Development to evaluate your choice.

1. Is it recognizable? The theme is the brand for the school year. It is

Why yearbook themes are a 'really big deal'

by H. L. Hall JEA 1995 Yearbook Adviser of the Year

It still makes me cringe. I cringed when the book came out. I still cringe when I think about it.

Your guide to a sold-out yearbook

It’s the ultimate goal and highest compliment – a yearbook ‘sell out.’ A Yearbook Sales Manager and simple marketing plan can make all the difference. Balfour is here to help with the promotion and

Four easy ways to start selling yearbooks now

Back-to-school is the most important campaign of the year. Early sales help build momentum and generate buzz about the book. The earlier you start the more books you will sell.

Practical guide on becoming a storyteller

by Nancy Ruth Patterson  1991 Inductee, National Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame

Helen Keller taught me how to teach writing.

How to inspire creative genius

by Bruce Watterson, Public Relations and Communications Consultant (formerly Chair of the CSPA Judging Standards & Practices)

The life cycle of a yearbook inspires. It is both frantic and fun. In the

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