Internet Merchants Association Conference Set for February/March

Just got word from Steve Grossberg of 1Busyman's Budget Video Games that the first Internet Merchants Association conference will be held in Las Vegas February 27 through March 1, 2007.
The IMA is a trade association comprised of eBay's top sellers, but the conference is open to all levels of e-commerce entrepreneurs.

Conference sounds like a great networking and educational opportunity.

Here's more about the conference and the IMA from Steve:

Currently IMA has a little over 200 members who are amongst the largest sellers
on eBay and we and rapidly growing. Many IMA members are former PESA
members.

We are opening the conference up to all ebay PowerSellers and not just IMA members and anticipate having around 200 plus attendees from IMA and eBay. This conference will be co-marketed with the three AMD/ASD trade shows.

We have commitments from eBay, Amazon, and Google to be presenting and in attendance and google will be the featured partner with 3-4 hours of presentation time. Scot Wingo from ChannelAdvisor will also be presenting on multi-channel selling.

We also have a customs broker who will be presenting on how to get started importing items for your business. And we have an executive director of the SBA scheduled to speak. Combine this with all the sourcing of products available through the ASD/AMD trade show and I think you guys will agree this should be a huge
success.

IMA members were recommended to stay at the Flamingo Hilton and if
you book on the