Ok. Our school isn't very big. We have around 116 students in grades Pre-K thru 4th. We are looking into a different company for our yearbook this year. We are trying to get the cost down below $20 a book. Last year, we charged $25, but we feel that with the economy in the slump its in, many parents may not be able to afford a book.. especially if they have more than one child in school.

Does anyone have any ideas that work well for helping with the cost? We sell ads, and we normally do pretty good on those!! I was hoping to sell ads and do something else to lower the cost that we have to charge the children. I don't consider this a big money maker.. I see the yearbooks as something every child should have to remember school by. Last year, we spent a little getting them.. we didn't break the bank or wasn't out a lot of money... it was fairly close... I just hope we can find other ideas to help us out.

Bumping this is up to see if anyone has any ideas.

~ Lisa

We use Memory Book Company and have great results. Our books are 32 or so pages and all black and white for a cost of around $9
Amy

Digital yearbooks cost only a dollar each to produce, the cost of a CD or DVD. They can be sold for very little and are a great way to raise funds. In my experience, nothing comes close.

I use YearBook Alive, let me know if you have any questions.

We put a letter out first to our parents asking if they want to advertise in our yearbook and added 4 pages for just business size ads...I can't remember if we charged $25 or $50 per business card ad...and had nearly all of them filled with parents of our schools at home businesses...Then we asked local businesses if they wanted to advertise as well after giving the parents first chance.

Hope that helps. We also switched from color to black & white pages.

We sell parent line ads for $3 each or 2 lines for $5 that allow parents to say " Nick D. we're so proud of you. Love, mom and dad." etc. Last year we sold 4 pages of these ads in a school of 115 for K-8. We also compiled a digital yearbook with additional photos set to music and included that dvd with the purchase of the yearbook. The cost to create the digital version was nominal but parents felt like they were getting a great deal since they got both for basically our cost of the print yearbook.