Cost… shouldn’t it be more?

“Ten bucks for a Yearbook! For the additional cost of a piece of pizza and a Coke I can buy my Yearbook? Can’t be much of a Yearbook for that price… I’ll pass!” I am apprehensive that some of you in the market place will think like that. I fought with my Team Members to […]

Is it time for a Digital Yearbook? And a little history about print yearbooks

The first bound ‘yearbook’ was introduced in 1806 to the seniors of Yale University. I put the word – yearbook – in quotes because it was more of a journal. Photography had not been invented yet so there were no senior portraits, no club, or sports pictures… there was text and printed silhouettes of the […]

How YearBoxx happened: Why I created YearBoxx

It was 5:30 in the morning, I was driving into NYC for my first Yearbook meeting of the day. Suddenly, I got an idea. It didn’t come to me like any other idea I have ever had, I actually felt it arrive! It sorta hurt. My name is Tom Kehoe. I have been a Yearbook […]

When TRADITION stops working…

The mission statement for a yearbook is simple, to preserve memories of an iconic year. Print yearbooks do that using text and photographs. The number of memories (photographs) is limited to the number of pages a school can afford. The average number of pages is around 104, which would be between 1000 and 1500 pictures. […]