Walsworth Yearbooks

Walsworth adds spiritwear, other new bulk products to online School Store

Idea File Staff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:40:14 +0000

Kansas City, Mo. (Sept. 2, 2010) – Walsworth Publishing announced that its yearbook staffs now have the opportunity to sell a full line of school spiritwear apparel, which can be personalized with school activity, year and even player numbers and graphics.

Welcome to Walsworth’s Marketing to Latino Parents program

Aimee Parsons — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:27:30 +0000

This past spring, Walsworth created a new program based on requests from schools like yours to help sell more yearbooks to the Latino community. We conducted research with advisers and Latino parents across the country and used our findings to create effective marketing tools.

Walsworth begins monthly Promotion Commotion sales contest

Idea File Staff — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:08:07 +0000

Kansas City, Mo. (Aug. 30, 2010) – Walsworth yearbook staffs will get the chance to compete to win monthly prizes, as well as two grand prizes, while they are marketing and selling the book this year in the company’s new Promotion Commotion contest.

Facebook makes yearbook connections

Jim Jordan — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:40:21 +0000

Facebook continues to be a fun way to see what all your friends and colleagues are doing and to stay in touch with former students and classmates, but it can also be an integral part of teaching and producing a yearbook.

Every good yearbook starts with a plan

Idea File Staff — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:40:41 +0000

As your staff sets out on their yearbook quest for the upcoming school year, it is crucial for them to understand the importance of using their ladder to get the book organized and on track.

Books that will boost buy-in in the yearbook room

Anne G. Whitt, MJE — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:27:29 +0000

Imagine teaching some journalism history without giving a lecture. Imagine encouraging reading inside your classroom and out. Start this with a small bookshelf in your classroom, about 20 books about journalism, less than $100 to buy them, and a checkout system.

Your yearbook staff can own their yearbook theme with a project

Tom Panarese — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:27:26 +0000

With the last deadline met and yearbooks not set to ship for another two months, it was time for the staff to think of next year’s theme. But we were not going to simply brainstorm it as a class; each of them was to develop a theme and sell it to the rest of us. That's where this theme project came in...

Mr./Miss Yearbook contest promotes the book at Arkansas school

Idea File Staff — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:26:41 +0000

At Mountain Pine High School in Arkansas, the staff raised awareness of the yearbook by holding a Mr./Miss Yearbook contest.

If I could do it over again…

Idea File Staff — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:35:27 +0000

Being an adviser is a tough job, rife with tricky tasks for newbies. For those who made it through the first years, what would you go back and do differently - if you could?

Five yearbook essentials that not every staff remembers

Elizabeth Braden — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:52:17 +0000

Can you imagine a yearbook that does not include the school name? They exist. Here are five places you need to put your yearbook essentials, and what you should include.