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	<title>AllYearbooks Blog - yearbook printing in the UK</title>
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		<title>Providing online chat support when you want it</title>
		<link>http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/2012/03/12/9am-9pm-providing-online-support-when-you-want-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting today, we now providing full online live chat support for all our customers from 9am until 9pm, Monday to Friday. In fact, we started this last week as a trial, and the results were so overwhelmingly positive that we decided today to officially launch this new level of online chat support. So from today [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Starting today, we now providing full online live chat support for all our customers from <strong>9am until 9pm, Monday to Friday</strong>. In fact, we started this last week as a trial, and the results were so overwhelmingly positive that we decided today to officially launch this new level of online chat support.</p>
<p>So from today you can contact us via phone during our regular office hours (around 9am until 5pm) and also via our online chat system all the way from 9am until 9pm.</p>
<p>We aim to reply to all chats within around 2-3 minutes except for the odd break and meeting (well&#8230; we do need to pop to the loo every now and then!).</p>
<p>So what&#8217;re you waiting for? Get chatting with us now! <img src='http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Creating collages that customers love</title>
		<link>http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/2012/03/08/creating-collages-that-customers-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s yearbook busy season, and that means it&#8217;s time to create a monstrous amount of design work for all of our customers&#8217; yearbooks. This year our big aim is to reduce the time between submitting a page for us to make and when we create it. Our aim is to create all (or at least [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s yearbook busy season, and that means it&#8217;s time to create a monstrous amount of design work for all of our customers&#8217; yearbooks. This year our big aim is to reduce the time between submitting a page for us to make and when we create it. Our aim is to create all (or at least almost all) design work the same week it&#8217;s submitted, unless it&#8217;s submitted on a Friday in which case it&#8217;ll be created the following week.</p>
<p>Oh, and it helps that our customers really, really love our collages&#8230;</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-681" title="yearbook_collages" src="http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/yearbook_collages.jpg" alt="" width="516" height="333" /></p>
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		<title>Getting Tweety with us</title>
		<link>http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/2012/01/25/getting-tweety-with-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Follow us on Twitter ( @allyearbooks ) for tips and advice about your yearbook. It&#8217;s also a great way to get in touch with us quickly and easily.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Follow us on Twitter ( <a href="http://twitter.com/allyearbooks">@allyearbooks</a> ) for tips and advice about your yearbook. It&#8217;s also a great way to get in touch with us quickly and easily.</p>
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		<title>Top 85 yearbook awards ideas</title>
		<link>http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/2012/01/20/top-85-yearbook-awards-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for inspiration for what awards to have in your yearbook? We&#8217;ve trawled our database of over 15,000 different awards and present to you the top 85 that we&#8217;ve found: - Most likely to become Prime Minister - Most Likely to Be Famous - Most likely to become a millionaire - Most likely to win [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looking for inspiration for what awards to have in your yearbook? We&#8217;ve trawled our database of over 15,000 different awards and present to you the top 85 that we&#8217;ve found:</p>
<p>- Most likely to become Prime Minister<br />
- Most Likely to Be Famous<br />
- Most likely to become a millionaire<br />
- Most likely to win a Nobel Prize<br />
- Most likely to become a WAG<br />
- Most likely to win an Oscar<br />
- Most likely to take over the world<br />
- Most likely to marry for money<br />
- Most likely to get married first<br />
- Most Likely To Become A Model<br />
- Most Likely To Become A Nun<br />
- Most likely to appear on Jeremy Kyle<br />
- Most likely to win an Olympic Medal<br />
- Most Likely to rule the World<br />
- Most likely to win X Factor<br />
- Most likely to cure cancer<br />
- Most likely to become a teacher<br />
- Most likely to break a world record<br />
- Most likely to become a comedian<br />
- Most likely to win the lottery but lose the ticket<br />
- Most likely to get ID’d when they’re 30<br />
- Couple most likely to get married</p>
<p>- Best Hair<br />
- Best Dressed<br />
- Best Smile<br />
- Best Laugh<br />
- Best Couple<br />
- Best Dressed Female<br />
- Best Dressed Male<br />
- Best looking Female<br />
- Best looking Male<br />
- Best Sportsman<br />
- Best Sportswoman<br />
- Best Dancer<br />
- Best Bum<br />
- Best Musician<br />
- Best legs<br />
- Best teacher<br />
- Best Newcomer<br />
- Best Artist<br />
- Best Double Act<br />
- Best personality<br />
- Best Singer<br />
- Best Party<br />
- Best Driver<br />
- Best Comedian</p>
<p>- Worst Driver<br />
- Worst attendance</p>
<p>- Most gullible<br />
- Most Sarcastic<br />
- Most creative<br />
- Most musical<br />
- Most Blonde<br />
- Most Hardworking<br />
- Most Artistic<br />
- Most annoying laugh<br />
- Most caring<br />
- Most annoying but loved<br />
- Most Organised<br />
- Most competitive</p>
<p>- Biggest Drama Queen<br />
- Biggest flirt<br />
- Biggest Gossip<br />
- Biggest party animal<br />
- Biggest Ego<br />
- Biggest Poser<br />
- Biggest chav</p>
<p>- Class clown<br />
- Funniest Person<br />
- Rear of the year<br />
- Cutest couple<br />
- Teachers Pet<br />
- Loudest<br />
- Nicest person<br />
- Party Animal<br />
- Funniest Teacher<br />
- Funniest Laugh<br />
- Nicest Smile<br />
- Favourite Teacher<br />
- Blondest<br />
- Loudest person<br />
- Quietest<br />
- Prom queen<br />
- Happiest Person<br />
- The [name of school] prize for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence</p>
<p>Also, <strong>a word of caution</strong>: whilst awards like &#8216;Most likely to go to prison&#8217; may seem funny, the person receiving the award may not be so pleased with it. In fact, we&#8217;ve had a case in the past of a <strong>parent nearly suing a school when their child was given this award</strong> &#8211; the page had to be replaced to prevent this. If in doubt, ask a teacher what&#8217;s appropriate and what&#8217;s not, and be aware that every school has their own rules.</p>
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		<title>New infopack coming soon</title>
		<link>http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/2012/01/05/new-infopack-coming-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re very excited about our new information packs which should be ready to send out to prospective customers within the next couple of weeks. With them comes a hint of our new branding, as you can see from the sneaky-peaky pic below. Congratulations to the newest member of the AllYearbooks team, our senior designer Chris, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re very excited about our new information packs which should be ready to send out to prospective customers within the next couple of weeks. With them comes a hint of our new branding, as you can see from the sneaky-peaky pic below. Congratulations to the newest member of the AllYearbooks team, our senior designer Chris, for his stellar work in designing our new image.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-667" title="yearbooks_infopack" src="http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/yearbooks_infopack.jpg" alt="" width="516" height="236" /></p>
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		<title>Keeping things running</title>
		<link>http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/2011/12/05/keeping-things-running/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We go to great lengths to keep our yearbook system&#8217;s website up and accessible for everyone to use all the time, day and night. An external agency monitors this for us by pinging our website every few minutes and using this data to report an &#8216;uptime&#8217; (and associated &#8216;downtime&#8217;). So just how often does the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We go to great lengths to keep our yearbook system&#8217;s website up and accessible for everyone to use all the time, day and night. An external agency monitors this for us by pinging our website every few minutes and using this data to report an &#8216;uptime&#8217; (and associated &#8216;downtime&#8217;). So just how often does the AllYearbooks website go offline?</p>
<p>In November, our uptime was 99.95%. That means during the whole month, the website went offline for less than 23 minutes and stayed online for over 43,000 minutes.</p>
<p>Since we started tracking this data in August 2010 our website has only been down for around 3 hours. That&#8217;s just 3 hours in well over one year.</p>
<p>You can <a href="http://stats.pingdom.com/mao2z3yatl8s/203792/history">see the data for yourself</a>.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-662" title="yearbooks_uptime" src="http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/yearbooks_uptime2.gif" alt="" width="516" height="396" /></p>
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		<title>We&#8217;re fast</title>
		<link>http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/2011/11/28/were-fast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To prove how fast we are here at AllYearbooks and to celebrate our continued successes, we went for a company outing to a Go Karting track here in Cambridge. Opting for the &#8216;Ironman&#8217; option we spent 5 minutes warming up and qualifying before a gruelling 30 minute non-stop race. After around 75 thoroughly exhausting laps [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To prove how fast we are here at AllYearbooks and to celebrate our continued successes, we went for a company outing to a <a href="http://kartsport.co.uk/">Go Karting track here in Cambridge</a>. Opting for the &#8216;Ironman&#8217; option we spent 5 minutes warming up and qualifying before a gruelling 30 minute non-stop race.</p>
<p>After around 75 thoroughly exhausting laps the results were in. Congratulations go to Tom in 1st place; Jake (me!) in 2nd place and David in 3rd.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-650" title="Fast yearbooks" src="http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/fast_yearbooks.jpg" alt="" width="516" height="443" /></p>
<p>David would like to take us all climbing for our next company party, but in the meantime we&#8217;ve got lots and lots of yearbooks to make for all our lovely customers in the UK and beyond.</p>
<p>Fancy joining us on our next adventure? We&#8217;re always <a title="Cambridge jobs" href="http://allyearbooks.co.uk/jobs">interested in finding new talent in Cambridge to join our growing team</a>.</p>
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		<title>Join our yearbook fast track</title>
		<link>http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/2011/11/22/join-our-yearbook-fast-track/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feel like your yearbook project is taking too long? Worried you&#8217;re not going to get it finished before exams or even the end of term? Let us help you out by joining our yearbook fast track today! Just ask your yearbook coordinator for details of how to create your yearbooks in record time. NOTE: tortoises [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Feel like your yearbook project is taking too long? Worried you&#8217;re not going to get it finished before exams or even the end of term? Let us help you out by joining our yearbook fast track today!</p>
<p>Just ask your yearbook coordinator for details of how to create your yearbooks in record time.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-645" title="AllYearbooks Tortoise" src="http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/allyearbooks_tortoise_fast_track.jpg" alt="wish I'd joined the AllYearbooks fast track" width="517" height="396" /></p>
<p>NOTE: tortoises need not apply.</p>
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		<title>Building a great yearbook company</title>
		<link>http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/2011/11/18/a-great-yearbook-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow&#8230; what a busy start to the 2011-2012 academic year! We&#8217;re now over half way into November and things are already starting to get really busy. Our team continues to grow. We&#8217;re now up to 8 full-time permanent yearbook-gurus, and during the ultra-busy period of the year our team swells to nearer 15. Strangely, whenever [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow&#8230; what a busy start to the 2011-2012 academic year! We&#8217;re now over half way into November and things are already starting to get really busy.</p>
<p>Our team continues to grow. We&#8217;re now up to 8 full-time permanent yearbook-gurus, and during the ultra-busy period of the year our team swells to nearer 15. Strangely, whenever we employ new people, we always manage to get a name clash. We&#8217;ve now had or have: 2 x Chris, 2 x Alex, 2 x Tom and 2 x Jam(ie|ey).</p>
<p>So how well are we doing? Well, last academic year we grew strongly again, creating yearbooks for over 450 different schools, colleges, universities and other groups across the UK and beyond. That&#8217;s about 50,000 yearbooks in just one year. We don&#8217;t know for sure, but we think that makes us the UK&#8217;s number one yearbook supplier now in terms of numbers, or at least very close to it.</p>
<p>We also think we&#8217;re the most efficient yearbook supplier, in that we have the smallest head count per customer served. This is really important, as it means we can be really competitive on price. What this doesn&#8217;t mean, however, is that your books are of a lower quality with us &#8211; we simply invest a lot of time, money and energy in improving our system so it does as much of the boring and time consuming work for us (and for you too).</p>
<p>So where do we go from here? Well, we want to do better still. We&#8217;re well into development now of an ultra-secret super-duper new yearbook system which we think will bring huge benefits for our customers whilst also continuing to decrease the amount of boring work we need to do per customer. This basically means you get a higher quality books, creating it in a simpler way, without the price going up. That&#8217;s a win win situation.</p>
<p>We hope to launch a beta version of our new system to a select number of customers at some point later in this academic year. Presuming all goes well, we&#8217;ll roll it out to all our customers in the next academic year, 2012-2013.</p>
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		<title>Jobs with us</title>
		<link>http://blog.allyearbooks.co.uk/2011/09/16/jobs-with-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fancy working for the UK&#8217;s leading supplier of web-to-print yearbooks? We&#8217;ve three exciting positions currently available over here.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fancy working for the UK&#8217;s leading supplier of web-to-print yearbooks? We&#8217;ve three exciting positions currently available <a href="http://allyearbooks.co.uk/jobs">over here</a>.</p>
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