Affiliate marketing suggestions for my Ecommerce site.

My site: http://www.buycheapfrom.us (do you like the domain name?), will be the new major outlet for mechant stores. It is still under development- but it will be something like Froogle. Merchants will be able to type in their products into database at the website, and users will be able to do a search (via a Soundex system) of the product according to the price. Our logo: Only the Cheap Survive.

Now, the biggest problem- how to get merchants to list on our site? Anyone have any ideas as to affiliate marketing schemes to get people to list products? I can do it by hand.. but it'll take helluva long time to list all the products on the internet.

The key is to get merchants to list products.. after I get a few thousand products, i think traffic will come naturally.

I want to harness the power of affiliate marketing.

Very clever domain name.

How much is your capital? It would be fairly easy to advertise such a site in Adwords, etc.

Try also contacting niche-specific industries. These tight knit "net societies" often bring in very good traffic coming from word of mouth marketing.