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,

National Yearbook Week: Here are the contests!

It’s almost here! National Yearbook Week is Oct. 6-12. Join us for a fun week of contests celebrating the importance of yearbooks and the yearbook staff. Six lucky staffs will take home $50 gift

4 schools take 6 finalist spots in NSPA’s Design of the Year contest

Four yearbook staffs were named finalists Monday for the 2019 Design of the Year by the National Scholastic Press Association. The judges selected 10 finalists in each of 10 categories, recognizing

Celebrate National Yearbook Week

“School yearbooks not only chronicle educational achievement and school tradition but are a part of them.” -President Ronald Reagan, Sept. 17, 1987

Maximize School Picture Day

Last fall, Glenda Dawson High School took advantage of Picture Day to take informal, candid photos for their folios. Photo courtesy of Leslie Sanderson

For many advisers, Picture Day is one of the

Win over your staff at a new school

From time to time, we share relevant conversations from our Balfour Advisers Facebook group. This post focuses on staff management for advisers at a new school. Some comments have been edited for

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