This is the whole product.
Everything else is logistics.
A yearbook is judged on one page: the reader’s own. Get that right and the book gets kept for thirty years. Get it wrong and it goes in a drawer by August.
Their portrait
Shot by a photographer we arrange and pay for. Same light, same crop, on every page.
Their own words
A quote they chose, a best memory, what they are doing next. Written by them, not about them.
Their photographs
The pictures from their own five years, built into the page rather than dumped in a gallery at the back.
You do almost nothing.
The reason schools dread the yearbook is not the book. It is the chasing, the admin, and somebody on the staff ending up with a shoebox of other people’s money. None of that is yours.
- Say yes.
- Send a class list: names and class groups.
- Give us the graduation date.
- Name one student on the graduation committee.
- Design every single page, individually
- Arrange and pay for the portrait photographer
- Build the submission portal inside your own Microsoft 365
- Chase every student for photographs
- Chase every student for their words
- Chase again, and then once more
- Write and send the reminders
- Proof the whole book
- Send proofs back to the year head to sign off
- Handle the printer and the print spec
- Take every student payment online
- Chase nobody in the school for money, ever
- Deliver to the school office before graduation
- Deal with the late orders, the reprints and the ones who move school
The school pays nothing, and never handles a cent.
Students buy their own copy directly from us, online, from months out. No envelopes, no cash in a drawer, no one on the staff reconciling a list. No invoice is ever raised to the school.
Fifteen minutes on a call?
I will ask what you did last year, who ended up doing the work, and what you would change. If it is not a fit, I will tell you and leave you alone.