Five Questions to Ask When Testing Rentals

| MCM staff

If you’re testing names, how do you know you selected the right list? At a session titled “Maneuvering Through the Merge/Purge for Best Response Rates” at the Annual Conference for Catalogers and Multichannel Merchants (ACCM) in Boston last month, Lane posed five questions mailers should ask of every list test.

Schein Sinks Teeth Into Dental Supplier Deal

| Jim Tierney

Henry Schein has gobbled up another company. The Melville, NY-based medical, dental, and veterinary supplies merchant on June 4 announced an agreement to buy the full-service and special markets businesses of New York-based Becker-Parkin Dental Supply Co.

Going Solo: Postcards and Solo Mailings

| Jim Tierney

As catalogers struggle to deal with the new postal rates, there’s been a lot of talk about reduction: Many mailers plan to offset costs by reducing trim size, circulation, and page counts. But the rate hike may inspire one type of increase