Always on time, always on budget, and always spectacular service
"One of the things that stands out about yb-squared is the service that I get from our Yearbook Rep. It's not just a weekly visit, but rather an opportunity for my students to learn from our rep and gain something to make their pages better."
- Melissa Casady, 16+ Year Adviser
Great Oak High School, Temecula Ca
WHAT WE BELIEVE
OUR MISSION:
Is to provide Yearbook Advisers and students with mind-blowing service, cutting-edge technology, real-world training and premium-quality.
WE'VE GOT YOU COVERED
With us your cover possibilities are endless. We pride ourselves in making your creative vision a reality. Our baseline cover for every high school includes a full-color, custom-designed cover with the school’s choice of one foil or spot UV coating which can be used on the front lid, spine and even on the back cover. We have no art fees of any kind, ensuring your school gets the cover they deserve.
Custom Full-color lithograph with Foil
Custom Litho with Matte Lamination and UV Coating
Plexiglass and other specialty covers
Laser-cutting
Material with Foil and Embossing or Debossing
Landscape books and books with unique dimensions
PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS
THE EXPERIENCE
REP SERVICE
“Each year my students are given the skills that they need and are able to enhance the ones that they already have."
- Melissa Casady, Adviser: Great Oak High School
A new definition of “hands-on”
For as long as any of us care to remember, a yearbook visits maybe once a month. He or she just pops in for an hour, asks, “How’s it going?” and then heads off to the next appointment. We don’t do it that way.
Our business model makes sure that our high schools see their reps every week. At least. And our appointments are designed to provide you with what you need. Every rep who walks into a classroom comes prepared with a wealth of knowledge at his or her fingertips, ready to teach everything from a lesson on writing captions to a quick demonstration of how to cut out the background on a photo.
We encourage our reps to schedule longer appointments, sometimes even visiting a school for two or three hours at a time, helping the students during the yearbook class and then staying into your planning period to answer the questions that just don’t get addressed when 30 students are all clamoring for your attention. We customize our visits to meet your needs, not ours.
Top-tier training
Most of our reps were successful yearbook advisors. All of them have been trained by Bret Barrett, our sales and marketing director, who was an award-winning yearbook advisor before he became a yearbook representative.
For our reps who were not teachers, we have created a unique partnership with some of our prized advisors, who have agreed to take new reps under their wings. In essence, we make our reps become student teachers who learn every aspect of production from an advisor who has mastered it. Yes, it is more expensive to train reps this way. But if you think about it, shouldn’t the person helping you do your yearbook have worked on creating one before? We wouldn’t have it any other way.
A MESSAGE FROM OUR OWNERS
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
The process of creating yearbooks has never been harder. That's why, even as our competition has been dropping prices, we have been upping our service. In every single area of yearbook production, we offer services that make books better and take things off of advisers' plates. Paying a lower price sounds good, but spending more time with your family is even better. You deserve a better yearbook and a better life. We can help.
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Gratefully yours,
Bret and Miriam Barrett
GALLERIES
PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS
COVERS
LAYOUT DESIGN
THE REAL YOU
THEME
INQUIRIES
For any inquiries, questions or commendations, please call: 909-319-9798 or fill out the following form.
MAIN OFFICE
EMPLOYMENT
To apply for a job with ybsquared, please send a cover letter together with your resume to: bret@ybsquared.com