Earth Day 2023 at Entourage Yearbooks As we celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd, we want to share with you all the ways Entourage Yearbooks is an environmentally-friendly company and strives to be as environmentally-conscious as possible. We have made a strong commitment to the environment and as a result we are careful about our paper choice. We offer numerous low-waste solutions for our customers to utilize, including downloading several elements for their projects online to save paper, such as software user guides, template selections, pre-designed covers, backgrounds, clipart and more.&nbs ..read more

Need More Yearbooks? Yearbook season has arrived! Do you want to use online sales to sell more yearbooks after they’ve already been printed, want parents to be able to buy books directly from Entourage at any point in the future, or place another bulk order of your yearbook? Entourage Yearbooks has you covered. Let’s discuss some options you can use to buy or sell more yearbooks even after your yearbooks have gone through production. Option 1: Post-Approval Sales Post-Approval Sales refers to being able to sell extra copies of your yearbook (not your original order) directly to parents th ..read more

April was National Poetry Month, and Entourage Yearbooks is printing more poetry than ever before! There have been countless unforeseeable side effects of the Coronavirus pandemic (for example: did you know, that when half the town shuts down, and the only open restaurant in a four block radius is a McDonald’s, you can smell that McDonald’s from half a mile away??–and so forth), and yearbooks have experienced their fair share of unexpected snags, complications, and stumbling blocks throughout the past year. Not all side effects are bad, though. Like the decline in global air poll ..read more

Entourage has been producing yearbooks for over 15 years, and they’ve helped hundreds of schools hurdle all kinds of obstacles in that time. Here’s their list of the Top 5 Yearbook Regrets of May: #5 Regret: Not Reading Senior Quotes It’s no secret that teenagers love to pull one over on adults, and seniors in high school are no exception. Harmless pranks are one thing, but some seniors use their quotes to make inflammatory remarks, warns Entourage.  How To Avoid It: Have your yearbook staff peer-review the quotes first, suggests Entourage. Students are most likely to catch other st ..read more

Whether you need to use online sales to sell more yearbooks after you’ve already gone to print, want parents to be able to buy books directly from Entourage at any point in the future, or just want to place another bulk order of your yearbook, Entourage has you covered. In this article, we’ll discuss three ways to buy or sell more yearbooks even after your book has entered print production. Option 1: Post-Approval Sales ‘Post-Approval Sales’ refers to the ability to sell extra copies of your yearbook (not your original order) directly to parents through Entourage’s online store in perpetuity ..read more

This month, US-based Entourage Yearbooks finalized its acquisition of Picaboo Yearbooks. I met with Bill Miles, Founder and CEO of Picaboo Yearbooks, as well as Elias Jo, Founder and CEO of Entourage Yearbooks, to learn more. “I am thrilled to have gone through this process with Picaboo Yearbooks,” Jo shared with me via Zoom meeting from his Princeton, NJ headquarters. “Entourage has always grown through organic growth, so I think growth through acquisition is a great way to build scale.” “We’re really excited to join the Entourage team,” Miles added when I spoke with him via Zoom from his New ..read more

Carolyn McCarty, President of Illinois PTA, is working with New Jersey-based yearbook provider, Entourage Yearbooks, to create a new kind of convention program book. Every year, the Illinois Parent Teacher Association holds the Illinois PTA Convention and Advocacy Conference for PTA leaders statewide to “network, learn new ideas, and sharpen leadership and advocacy skills.” The Illinois PTA was first founded in the year 1900*, and their annual convention is one of their most important and most anticipated events. The Illinois PTA is the Illinois state chapter of National PTA, which is the larg ..read more

The Entourage Yearbooks National Yearbook Competition is a nationally sponsored contest judging school yearbooks across the dimensions of creativity, originality, and journalistic relevance. Hundreds of schools enter across all fifty states at the Elementary, Middle School, and very competitive High School level. This achievement recognizes Christian Academy of Guatemala for putting together a notable yearbook at the High School level. Their entry was submitted at the end of March 2021 and was officially awarded on October 16th, 2021. The Christian Academy of Guatemala yearbook was selected fr ..read more

This Black History Month, Entourage Yearbooks is proud to work alongside creator Benjamin Young on a special project: Black Gold Excellence, a history of African-Americans in America. Young, a former security policeman with the Air Force who served one year in Vietnam and received the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross for his service, is currently residing in Georgia. In his civilian life, he was an electrician, and began his design journey after retirement in 2019. His debut book, Black Gold Family Memories, was also printed by Entourage and was produced last year. That project, an elegant ..read more

January has come, and the end of another school year is just beginning to peek over the horizon. Here’s Entourage’s list of the Top 5 Yearbook Mistakes Made Every January: #5 Assuming Someone Else Is Going To Help Later In January, many advisors log into their projects for the first time. Not knowing who will take over the task, many yearbook advisors setting up new projects will do so under their own name, with the hope that someone else will take over later. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that anyone will be enthusiastically joining the yearbook team in January. By waiting for someone els ..read more