Hampton High launches spirited book sales campaign

Hampton High School in Hampton, Tennessee is off to a great start that is sure to bare results.

Get in the spirit too and promote your yearbook sales.  October is the ideal month for selling yearbooks.  Please share your marketing ideas with us too.

Our clients dominate THSPA… Again

Webb School of Knoxville earned 2nd place honors for the Best Overall yearbook in Tennessee.  The 2010 Princeps continues the tradition of award winning books at Webb School.  The 20/10 vision theme, cleverly, uses the date to show how the students and the school see their futures more clearly. Editors, McKenzie Roddy and Meg Smith, led the student staff to produce this award winner.  Advisers for the 2010 Princeps, which was rated All-Tennessee, were Sharon Mann, Meg Crawford, Nancy Manikas, Janet Bigelow, and Pat Wright.

The 2010 Shamrock at Knoxville Catholic High School placed 4th in the state in Best Overall competition.  Knoxville Catholic students also won individual awards for entries. Alex Willis and Tony Perfetto won honorable mention for Best Academic Copy.  Tony Perfetto also won 1st and 2nd place for Best Black and White Photo while Nichole Nabozniak earned three honorable mention awards in the category and an additional honorable mention for best color photo.  Samantha Quintero, Ericka Feldman and Renée Magart won 3rd place in Best Sports/Organizations Copy while Sophia Floersh and Nichole Nabozniak earned honorable mention. Regan Graham earned honorable mention for Best Student Life Copy.  Dawn Harbin is Adviser to the Shamrock which earned a Superior rating.

We are also proud of our neighbors in central Tennessee where Buz Watson is the Walsworth rep.  Buz's client Mt. Juliet High placed sixth in the state with their honorable mention for Best Overall Yearbook.  Also many of Mt. Juliet's student won individual awards as did students from Nashville Christian and Centennial High,

Oak Ridge High's 2010 Oak Log also earned a superior rating from the Tennessee High School Press Association. Christi Noe, the adviser, and her student's consistently bring honor to the school and the Oak Ridge community.

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A new and improved Planning Workbook

We're excited about our new Planning Workbook. It will help our clients develop better themes, improve the organization of the book, develop font and color plans, do a better job marketing the book and ads and most importantly, to make advisers jobs easier and the yearbook better.  This 56 page workbook will become your roadmap to a great year. For a copy call or email either of us.

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(c)copyright 2010 Bill Stoess Knoxville, Tennessee

Want to find great Magazine Designs

Magazine design and layout

Go to flickr.com and search for Magazine Design.

First "Show me your banner and I'll show you mine" winners

Congratulations to the Roane County High School Yellow Jacket staff, our first banner photos winner. Joe, the editor, even crawled off his death bed to make the photo. The Yellow Jackets win a gift certificate to Handee Burger (or some other delight). (Wonder how they attached the banner to the brick building... secrets safe with me). See if you can't top this great photo. In two weeks we'll award another prize... send me your photos.

I welcome your comments and suggestions.
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(c)copyright 2009 Bill Stoess Knoxville, Tennessee

Share YOUR Banner

Five contests you can win.

1. Hang a BIG banner with the www.yearbookforever.com address in a place where lots of students will see it.
2. Take a photo with you and some staff members in front of it and email the photo to me. Most creative/effective will win a gift card from me.
3. In a couple weeks, move the banner to another location, take a picture with some staff members and send it to me. I'll pick another winner and send another prize.
4. Repeat the process every two weeks til Thanksgiving and I'll continue to send winners prizes.
5. Each time you send me a photo I'll forward it to Blaze Hayes and he is going to select 5 winners from Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia for $50.00 prizes.
6. Register for the It's Worth it Campaign. Three schools will win $1,000. For increasing book sales, increasing ads sales, and increasing options sales. Even if you don't win... You Win!
7. Encourage your students and parents to register for $1,000 scholarships. One lucky student has already won $1,000 and two more will win. One name will be drawn in November and another in Decemeber.

Opps... I think that's more than five. If you try.... I bet you win something!

I welcome your comments and suggestions.
Visit my other pages InDesignYearbook and PhotoshopYearbook

(c)copyright 2009 Bill Stoess Knoxville, Tennessee

We Couldn't Be More Proud of Our Schools

Three of the top four books in the state are Walsworth clients!

Webb School of Knoxville's 2008 Princeps received the Tennessee High School Press's hightest rating... The All-Tennessee rating. It was also chosen by T.H.S.P.A. as the 2nd best book in the state.



Knoxville Catholic High and the 2008 Shamrock earned the Superior rating and was named the 3rd best book in Tennessee.




The 2008 Oak Log at Oak Ridge High School is also rated Superior by T.H.S.P.A. and was commended a 4th place award in the state competition.

These yearbook staffs and advisers work hard to produce great yearbooks and we commend them on a job well done.

The Tennessee High School Press Association will begin rating 2009 books soon and we expect our clients will shine again in this year's competition.