Whether it’s your first year as adviser or your 30th, one ongoing task that you will always be working on is recruiting. Each and every year, you must find willing, talented, hard-working students and convince them that they want to sign up to be a member of staff and help create the book with you.…

One of my most significant failures as an adviser was that I never put into place a strong system that helped me manage the holiday deadline season well. For too many years, all of the 35 I was an adviser,  I let December deadlines manage my life and they drained too much of the joy…

Last year, I began working on a webinar called “Get Your Yearbook Show on the Road” to prepare yearbook advisers and their staffs to have maximum success on that first deadline in late October or early November. As I began to outline all that was needed to help an adviser and staff be fully ready…