Here’s another look at the remaining 2008 US Federal Reserve Holidays that may cause our suppliers’ payments to be delayed a few days:

• September 1: Labor Day
• October 13: Columbus Day
• November 11: Veteran’s Day
• November 27: Thanksgiving Day
• December 24: Christmas Eve (not a Federal Reserve Holiday, but early closures may effect when payments are received)
• December 25: Christmas Day
• December 31: New Year’s Eve (not a Federal Reserve Holiday, but early closures may effect when payments are received)

For those who really like to plan ahead, the Federal Reserve Bank provides a look ahead all the way to 2012.

As you can see, we’re recommending five more shopping carts.

We’d like to thank Clement Nicolaescu, Pinnacle Cart and WorksForWeb for creating the most recent additions to our Recommended Carts list.

Every shopping cart on our Recommended Carts list has been reviewed by 2CO staff to confirm that they meet all of our integration requirements. If you would like to use a third party shopping cart with your 2Checkout account, there’s one to meet just about any vendor’s needs already on the list and we’re adding more all the time.

If you are creating a 2CO-compatible shopping cart and would like to have it added to our Recommended Carts list, please contact us at integration@2co.com and provide a working demonstration, so we can review it for inclusion and provide any additional assistance you may require.

Pinnacle Cart is an extremely powerful php shopping cart and website builder application. Designed from marketing perspective, this eCommerce application is feature-packed, robust, scalable and easy to use. Pinnacle Cart is the clear choice for serious merchants focused on rapidly and cost effectively deploying, managing and growing a successful web-based business.

Web site: www.pinnaclecart.com

iLister is a SEO-optimized platform for creating classifieds websites with multiple categories (cars, realty, scripts, jobs, personals, pets, electronics, clothing, etc) much like Craig’s List ™, Kijiji ™ and similar services. Fully customizable code and look & feel offer endless possibilities to create your own unique website. 2CO is seamlessly integrated into iLister.

Web site: www.ilistersoft.com

Last week, I traveled to Boston to sample Affiliate Summit East and in the process, the New England Clam Chowda’. “Summit” was good, but the chowda’ was great!

Affiliate Summit provides updated educational sessions and networking for professionals in the affiliate marketing business. When I entered Summit’s signature networking session — the Meet Market – my jaw hit the floor. Can you say, “baptism by fire”? Wow! Affiliates walk from table to table in a fury to strike deals with individual merchants and networks. It looked and sounded like the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. In many cases, you had to almost scream to be heard! The interaction between merchants to find affiliates willing to market their products was a feeding frenzy. The Meet Market was an impressive introduction to the aggressive nature of the business, as well as the thriving heartbeat of affiliate marketing.

Educational sessions were packed with topics such as incorporating more video into affiliate sites, how social marketing is impacting the industry, and what the increase in mobile ecommerce means to the business. A majority of the topics were a bit recycled from “how-to” lists posted daily on industry blogs, but I guess you can never be reminded enough about the fundamental building blocks of SEO, analytic tracking, and quality networking.

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