For Immediate Release

February 7, 2007

LANSING - Michigan Retailers Association's 5th Annual Retail Education Conference will be held on March 5, at the Soaring Eagle Resort in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The conference will offer six seminars designed to teach specific skills for working efficiently and effectively to attract customers, increase profits, save money and expand business.

Seminar topics and speakers include:

• Would You Do Business With You?
• Mitzi Taylor, Not So Basic Training

• The Procrastinator's Guide to Succession Planning
• Richard Gibbs, Gibbs Wealth Management Group,
• and Dennis Blender, Blender Consulting Group

• Give Customers a Mini-Vacation
• Michael Crosson, M Crosson Associates

• How Can MRA Help You?
• John Mayleben

• Internet Marketing Secrets Techies Don't Tell You
• Susan Negen, Whizbang! Training

• How To Develop a Whizbang Staff
• Susan Negen, Whizbang! Training

Cost: $109 for MRA members, $129 for non-members (fee includes seminars and luncheon).

To register: contact MRA's Kammy Johns at 800.366.3699 or kjohns@retailers.com. Conference information is available at the 2007 Conference webpage.

To make hotel reservations, please contact MRA's Kammy Johns at 800.366.3699 or kjohns@retailers.com.

The Michigan Retailers Association is the unified voice of retailing in Michigan and the nation's largest state trade association of general merchandise retailers. MRA's nearly 5,500 retail business members operate more than 13,000 stores across the state.