Success Story

About Balfour:

Balfour Yearbook, a registered trademark of Commemorative Brands, Inc. is a leading school yearbook publisher in the United States. Balfour began in 1913 as a jeweler specializing in fraternity and sorority jewelry, over time growing to produce championship rings, yearbook publication, and school apparel.

Business Challenge:

Balfour Yearbook recently created a dedicated consumer marketing team. The new team needed to build processes from scratch, and needed a way for the team to work together and track progress as they built the team, and then a platform to manage the team's day-to-day work.

Solution:

Samepage brings together the right combination of communication tools, file sharing, and project management tools that Balfour Yearbook needs to manage work.

Ms. Reynolds' team uses Samepage to organize their projects, with pages dedicated to social media planning, their social media schedule, and their social media contests:

"We created folders in Samepage to better organize all of our project pages. We have a pages dedicated for social media planning and another for contests. I also keep a schedule of our posts on a page so, I can keep an eye on our social media timeline from Samepage."

Samepage also allows her team to work with people outside of her organization:

"We created a separate team to work with two guest users - we have a couple of large projects that have 40+ moving parts, and we manage them from that team. We really like the templates and use the project planning one the most. The tasks feature is great, too – it allows us to track progress from 25% done to complete."

Highlights:

• External Collaboration - Samepage's flexible user structure allows Balfour to invite external contractors to communicate and work with the team, while only allowing access and visibility to specific projects and data.
• Multimedia Support - Like every marketing department, Balfour Yearbook works with lots of images. Samepage supports all image file types and more cloud file services than any other collaboration tool.
• One place for content and communication - Samepage unifies content and communication, with built-in chat and dynamic pages that allow Balfour's team to keep content from all of their projects. That way a year from now, they can check back and see how far they've come!