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1. Participate in chat rooms related to the product you're reselling. Start a conversation with a person without trying to sell to them. Later on, although you're chatting, mention the product you're reselling.
2. Create a free ebook with the advertisement and link of your affiliate web site. The subject of the free ebook should draw your target audience to down-load it. Also submit it to some ebook directories.
3. Start your own affiliate program directory. Join a large number of affiliate programs and list them all in a directory format on your web site. Then just advertise your free affiliate program directory.
4. Write your own affiliate program ads. If all the other affiliates use the same ads you do, that does not give you an edge over your competition. Use a different ad to give yourself an advantage over all the other affiliates.
5. Use a personal endorsement ad. Only use one if you've actually bought the product or service for the affiliate program. Tell people what kind of benefits and results you've received using the product.
6. Advertise the product you're reselling in your signature file. Use an attention getting headline and a good reason for them to visit your affiliate site. Make sure your sig file doesn't go over 5 lines.
7. Join a web ring. It should attract the same type of people that would be interested in buying the product you're reselling. You could also trade links on your own with other related web sites.
8. Participate on web discussion boards. Post your comments, answer other people's questions, and ask your own questions. Include your affiliate text link under each message you post.
9. Create a free ezine. Use your ezine to advertise the affiliate programs you've joined. Submit your ezine to online ezine directories and promote it on your web site.
10. Start a private web site. Use it as a free bonus if people buy the product you resell. You could also allow people to join for free and you could advertise the affiliate program you've joined.

Many websites in their infinite wisdom continue to log me off "for my protection". Great for them, sucks for me. I want to find a "ping" like tool or other means to keep me logged in until I choose to log off. I am thinking of websites like credit card companies, investment companies, utilities, etc. Of course, it would be great for these webmasters to just allow users to increase the timeout as a option but that would be too easy. Instead I need to suffer. And don't you dare tell me about security — this has nothing to do about security. I will be at home, in the suburbs, on a non-public PC that I have complete control of. If I stayed logged on for weeks, it would STILL be impossible for anyone to breach my account because of that. Also, if you are hindered by this, please tell the companies often. Maybe, if enough people complain, these web sites will improved so that we don't need to be devious. Well, I have your answer right here. Best thing I can think of is to setup a macro utility that refreshes the page every so often by basicly just hitting F5. This will keep your activty from going idle and loggin out. There are many macro softwares out there, I couldnt really recommend one to you.