June 14th, 2011
Creating an award-winning yearbook is always easier when you have an entourage to back you up. How else can you have access to the best design software, binding options, and upgrades to help you create a book that is clean and consistent, with crisp images and graphics? Entourage Yearbooks, a yearbook company that is known for its quality products, explains how to bring your expertise of content, pages, color, covers, and bindings into your yearbook project.
Get Organized
Managing your book online is a great way to organize photos, keep track of deadlines, and stay in touch with your yearbook company. By creating categories for photos, you can involve as many yearbook committee members as you would like. Keep track of your progress by uploading your files to your own personal website. Add and arrange pages on your yearbook ladder. Preview an instant set of digital proofs. The best part is, you can create your yearbook in the design program of your choice: Adobe InDesign, custom yearbook software, and more.
Stumped on Ideas? Get Creative!
Contact your yearbook company to speak with a team of expert graphic designers and creative consultants. They are always up-to-date with the latest trends in yearbooks and are ready to be your resource for layouts, themes, and technical problems.
Design your Cover
Pick a cover style that fits your school. Decide whether you want a leatherette Classic cover or a customizable Signature cover. Do you prefer foil stamping and embossing, or your own photography and designs? Whatever you choose, know that you can pick a look for your yearbook that is as handsome as an encyclopedia, or as hip as a magazine.
Don’t Forget to Upgrade
If you’re still looking for more, it is a good idea to check out some yearbook upgrades. Think about adding foil stamps, printed end sheets, debossing, dust jackets, and other upgrades to your project. You can get all the traditional yearbook options (and more!) to help you to design on two scales: traditional and conservative; funky and contemporary. No matter the approach, these upgrades can add to your best yearbook cover yet.
Get an Entourage
Entourage Yearbooks publishes yearbooks of award-winning quality in 50 U.S. States, 19 Countries, and 7 Continents. They are known for their team of talented and cutting-edge consultants.
As Editor of our medical school yearbook, I found the quality of yearbook beyond reproach. Characteristics I have looked for include the printing color and quality, consistency between pages, the clarity and color of printed pages and cover, and the speed and reliability of production. Entourage has produced the best quality yearbook of all publishers we have had in the last four years!
-Mercer University School of Medicine
For more information on how to create a high-quality yearbook, visit Entourage Yearbooks online .
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June 6th, 2011
Making a yearbook can be a tough commitment for schools on a budget. When it comes to money, the stresses of dealing with the unknown can be reason enough to shy away from a yearbook project.
Entourage Yearbooks understands this burden, and has therefore found a way for schools to breathe a sigh of relief when it comes to starting a yearbook program. Rather than dealing with the burden yourself, why not let our yearbook company help take the weight off?
Entourage’s Yearbook Champion Program is a no-risk yearbook program that offers special pricing for schools on a budget. Since it can sometimes be tough to commit to selling a set number of yearbooks, Entourage offers a flat rate for Yearbook Champions. This means that whether you sell one book, 20
books, or even 100 books, you can secure a flat rate per book.
This yearbook program allows you to create a quality yearbook without having to run the risk of spending extra money on unused books. In this way, you can focus on meeting your yearbook requirements and deadlines, and leave the financial stresses behind.
For only $200, you can sign up and receive your yearbook software, along with access to your digital yearbook kit, webinars, personal yearbook website, and online sales.
In turn, your online yearbook will be stored for two years. This, along with your Yearbook as a Small Business guide, will allow for additional yearbook sales.
When starting your yearbook program with Entourage, your yearbook kit will include the exclusive Yearbook as a Small Business guide. This guide teaches you how to organize your yearbook staff in order to manage the planning, marketing, and sales of your yearbook. It teaches you how to reach out and keep your students excited about their yearbooks. This can be a big help when looking to raise money for next year’s yearbooks.
Your account manager is always here for you to assist with design and tech support, and any additional help you might need with your yearbook software. Whether it’s a financial concern, a design issue, or a simple unloading, never hesitate to contact your Account Manager for help.
Entourage Yearbooks works with elementary, middle, and high schools to create yearbook programs for schools of all sizes and financial backgrounds.
For more information on affordable yearbook programs and yearbook software, visit Entourage at www.entourageyearbooks.com
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May 9th, 2011
A yearbook project can often challenge its committee members. Whether it’s a PTA meeting or a second job, there are always other responsibilities that fill up our schedules pretty quickly.
Many yearbook companies are finding ways to use online technologies to allow yearbook committees to work together. Entourage Yearbooks, a company that prides itself in its use of online tools, has figured out how you can benefit:
Learning Together: Webinars
Online meetings and conferences enable yearbook committee members to attend software training sessions together. Besides being able to simultaneously view ways to make your yearbook project better, it is fun to bond over learning and sharing something as a group.
Sharing Information: Personal Website
Rather than assigning one person to manage a yearbook, why not get more people involved? Online tools enable multiple committee members to log in to their school’s account to keep track of deadlines, manage yearbook sales, and upload photographs. Account Administrators can then select these photographs immediately and begin dropping them into their yearbook software.
Never Missing a Moment: Digital Proofs
Certain events like Prom come very late in the year. Since it is difficult to push completion deadlines, events like these are often left out of yearbooks. With tools like digital proofs, you can upload pictures from Prom, submit your pages, and instantly request a set of digital proofs. This can cut weeks from your project timeline.
Saving Money: Customer Login
Online tools can help cut costs of travel and postage, leaving yearbook committees with money in their budget for other projects and events. This can relieve financial stresses and put the committee in a much better mood.
Connecting to your Yearbook Company: Online Consultants
Online tools make for a faster connection to your yearbook company; they allow billers, tech support, and creative and design consultants to be there for you immediately through webinars and online conferencing. You can share your computer screen and talk about your project the second a question arises. You can also access videos with hints and tricks that your yearbook company will most likely update regularly.
“Excellent customer service!! My account manager answered my every question (and there were a lot of them) and bent over backwards to make sure we had a positive experience. We were thrilled with Entourage.” -Waymakers
Selling Yearbooks Online: Online Yearbook Sales
Online Yearbook sales make for a very easy way for students and teachers to purchase yearbooks. This gives an opportunity to build more excitement around the yearbook project while being able to log in and out of their school’s account as they please.
Entourage Yearbooks is continuously finding new ways to bring technology into the yearbook process. Since design, production, and sales are managed online, yearbook committees are not only allowed instant access and support; they are allowed more time and energy to share this very exciting process.
For more information on Online Tools, visit Entourage Online at entourageyearbooks.com.
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