Yearbook time is exciting! You’re excited, but how do you make sure everyone else is excited about this project you’ve been working hard at? Here are 7 fun ideas to raise yearbook awareness and help get your school community excited to order their copy.

  1. Teacher/Staff Guess Who: Ask teachers or staff members to shar a school portrait picture of themselves as a child with you. Make a display in a high traffic hallway or bulletin board with the photos asking students to Guess Who’s pictures they are. Maybe include a small answer key at the bottom…or make it a contest to see who can guess the most pictures correctly.
  2. Yearbook Photo Contest: Give students a time frame and run a ‘photo’s around school’ contest. You could have different categories such as student life, school spirit, game day, funny photos, knowledge is power, unique angles or human emotions. Let them know all photos submitted could appear in the yearbook. This will help you have a wide verity of photos to choose from when building your pages. Have students or staff vote on the winners and include a prize for the winners.
  3. Social Media Fun: Do you have your yearbook theme picked out? Post little hints of it on Social Media. Maybe it’s the corner of a shoe(Take a walk in our shoes), section of a map(We’re going places) or field of flowers (Here we grow!). Then ask the school community if they can guess the theme. Maybe even try a word puzzle. Whole+Planet+Platform (All the worlds a stage )
  4. Sneak Peak: Post or display a little snippet of a finished page or two in the yearbook that you really like at the school or on social media. Maybe not even a whole page but just enough to make people wonder ‘what’s that?’
  5. Your In It:- Remind students that this yearbook is THEIR yearbook, and their in it. Set up a fun display in the hallway with a mirror surrounded by a photo looking border as a way to grab students attention. Include some fun wording around the border like “It’s The Smithville 2023 Yearbook & You’re In It!”
  6. Yearbook Photo Booth: Set up a yearbook photo booth at open house or a large school event. Include fun props and encourage kids to take photos with their friends that could be included in the yearbook.
  7. Students Assemble: Have a student assembly (or tag onto the end of an already planned assembly) and display a slideshow of yearbooks past. Then thoroughly explain the ordering process, prices and sale dates to make sure everyone is on the same page.

 

Ideas can always be adjusted as needed to fit your school size and community. Memory Book offers a wide variety of FREE sales materials for their customers to help assist in marketing process. Call 1-800-247- 1526 to get started today.

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