On this page you’ll find in-depth articles packed with calendar-printing ideas that will help you make your calendar project a success. We’ll be covering a wide range of topics, including calendar fundraising, marketing and pricing your calendar, creating collages, photo editing, and photo contests. Let us know if there is a topic you’d like to see addressed here.
If you are planning to create a calendar this year using your own photos and text, you are probably wondering how soon you need to start working on the project.
I’d love to say that every calendar fundraiser that we produce is an unqualified success. That every nonprofit that orders a calendar from us earns thousands of dollars in sales (as well as winding up with a great promotional piece). The truth is that although we have many inspirational success stories, sometimes a calendar fundraiser …
You’ve seen them in magazines, in newspapers, on posters, and maybe on business cards. They are small, square patches printed in black & white and often accompanied by slogans such as, “Scan here to learn more!” What are they? QR codes! QR stands for “quick response,” and the QR code was designed as a way for …
Why hold a calendar fundraiser? To raise money, of course! Actually, there is a lot more to it than that. After all, there are hundreds of other fundraising opportunities out there. Why make and sell a calendar instead of selling magazine subscriptions or organizing a charity auction? Let’s look at the top five reasons, in …
Given how much Americans love their pets, it should be no surprise how wildly popular pet calendars are. People (and especially pet owners) just love to decorate their walls with photos of adorable dogs and cats! It should also be no surprise that calendar fundraising is an extremely popular and effective tool for humane society …
Custom calendars is all we do. Let me repeat that: custom calendars is all we do. I’m repeating myself because I strongly believe that our success at Yearbox Calendars is due in large part to the fact that unlike other printing companies, we don’t get sidetracked with stationery or brochures, and we can really focus on …
Most of our customers have no trouble finding a custom calendar design among our styles galleries that they really like. But more often than not, there is a little something extra that they need. Maybe they need 300 custom events added to the date boxes. Or maybe they need the typefaces to match their corporate …
Touching-up and enhancing photos is not a new service for us — its what we’ve done at Yearbox since day 1. The first step when we get to work on your calendar is to open each image in Photoshop and make it look as good as it can. Usually, this means making slight adjustments in …
