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Where should I start to learn about this, or how would you advise I proceed?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Most of the major affiliate directories are organized into categories (similar to Yahoo), making it very easy to find the programs related to a single category (like wireless phones). At the very least, you can get a good idea of what is available. Try searching for "affiliate directory" or something similar and you should find a long list of these type of sites.
Clay
Google has them listed in order of popularity. Refer-it and AssociatePrograms are both pretty up to date and easy to seach by category.
[directory.google.com...]
Since Google has not pulled a new directory from DMOZ for awhile you may want to check here too. There are some new ones listed that are not in Google yet: [dmoz.org...]