Category Archives: Great Ideas

Ideas to Try – Business Manager’s Books

You need a business manager. Herff Jones provides the support. Whether to sell any remaining books for this year, coordinate thank you notes to advertisers, plan for renewal advertising or begin the campaign for next year’s book and ad sales, … Continue reading

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Ideas to Try – Wish List

Yearbooks matter. Memories fade. But wishes can come true. The Herff Jones Order Center Wish List program provides marketing support to reach students and their parents, and online payment to make your job of selling books easier. Herff Jones also … Continue reading

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Ideas to Try – eDesign New Features

We are excited about the continued evolution of eDesign, already the industry leader in power, elegance and ease of use. Click on the “see demo” button for a preview of our Facebook Sneak Peek application. Click on the paragraph below … Continue reading

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Making Yearbook Cool Again, part 1

It is that time of year when we are finishing up this year’s book, but it is also the time of year to start thinking about NEXT year’s tome, or more accurately, ways to make yearbook a bigger and more … Continue reading

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eShare

(Click on the photo to enlarge) What if parents and students, coaches and spectators, teachers and staff could get photos to the yearbook crew quickly and easily? Now they can, with eShare, a Herff Jones internet site to which school … Continue reading

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Book sales

Need some last minute ideas for book sales? Here are a few. Tip #1. Despite all our technological sophistication, no sales drive works better than having the yearbook staff ask, face to face. Identify the students in school who have … Continue reading

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Club Herff

Education. Recognition. Motivation. Support. All are hallmarks of how Herff Jones and the Yearbook Connection approach schools and the world of yearbook journalism. We are excited about an another element we are adding to the mix: community. This year, the … Continue reading

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Keep your text frames

You may have noticed in eDesign that text frames seem to disappear. Once you draw them and then click somewhere else, the frame is no longer visible. It’s really still there, but can be hard to find. From a design … Continue reading

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You Oughta’ Be Indexing!

If you haven’t started already, and you’re planning on doing an index, now’s a great time to start. Although schools sometimes wait until proofs to build an index, the Herff Jones Index Builder makes the task quite easy. In fact, … Continue reading

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