Hey mystrongtikes, I am from Buffalo too, now living in Florida. At our small, private school we use Lifetouch. They also do the school pictures. The web program that we use for the yearbook is called "webease" and it was easy to use once you understood it. I came into the yearbook late, as the person who was in charge of it never did anything to get the book done, and I had the reps. come out and help me with the set up and they were great, very helpful. I know Hamburg school district uses them.
Good Luck,
Kim
For the last 4 or 5 years we have used Remember Me for our yearbooks www.rememberme.biz
and have always had a great experience. Lifetouch who does our school pictures, provides a disc with all the photos on it that I mail to Remember Me, then they are uploaded from there. I design the entire book online.
Our PTO handles 100% of the yearbook, but the school handles 100% of the school pictures.
It is important to us that every student receives a yearbook, so we purchase enough for everyone then send home an envelope requesting an optional payment of $7, which many families paid.
We use a company called Josten's which uses a program called yearbookavenue. I'm sure you can find them online.
This past year was our first time trying it. Even though we are just a K through 4 elementary, it ended up being pretty successful. We weren't looking to make a profit, but ended up coming out a couple of hundred ahead.
It's all based on how many you order/sell. I don't remember the specific cost, but we ordered 250, which ended up being perfect. And that included us gifting each staff member with a yearbook for staff appreciation week.
The early order cost was like $9, but then it went up over the course of a couple of months. By the end of the year the cost was $18 for those who wanted one last minute.
What was pretty neat about this company is that we do the book ourselves online using their program. We log in at the site and then can upload pics. From their we can create pages, etc.
They even sent out a rep to show a couple of us how to do it.
Our problem was that we started this in January, so we had a lot of work to do. If we had tried to keep up on this all year long it would have been much easier. For the staff and student pics we just asked the company that the school uses for class pictures for a CD, which they gave with no issues. I think it's pretty standard for the companies that do the school pics to provide a disk with all of the pics on them for school use. If not then look to change picture companies.
Who does your yearbooks(company), do they also do your school pictures or is that separate, and the area where I need the most info is what kind of yearbook distribribution list do they give you? Is it very concise and through as to who gets one and who doesn't.
Also does the school handle the pictures/yearbooks or does the PTO do it all?
Cindy<br />
<br><br />
<br>____________________________________________<br />
<br>"People have the right to be stupid, but some abuse the privelege."
