You may want to attempt a redirect from a top level domain that you own to the merchant landing page for these articles if they are placed on ezine articles or elsewhere. That is, a redirect for the resource links.
If you are in one of the heavily saturated markets like weight loss, pills, etc, the article will just get pushed down by the tons of submissions coming in right after it, you may spend a good deal of time writing the article and it may only get 40 readers, 1 click to your url in the resource box, and 0 conversions. Submitting articles for backlinks is another story; submitting articles for direct sales is a bit tricky these days in highly saturated markets. I would just take this into consideration if you are writing and attempting to make sales from the articles immediately, time could be better spent elsewhere.
From what you are saying about your articles being comparable to mini sales pages, it sounds like these are designed to make sales on the spot. To do this you need to tailor an extremely catchy article title and make an extremely clever summary box that will appear below your title before the user clicks to read the whole article. And then, if you're on ezine articles, they allow a minimum of 250 words(which I would suggest for immediate sales), and here you can basically write a sales pitch, but not an explicit pitch, rather an intriguing, informative article that acts like a pitch. Then in the article resource box, you want to put one sentence with the redirected affiliate link in it. The resource box will format right under where the article stopped, so it looks like an extension of your article. You can try this, as it sounds like what you want to do, but this method has been beaten to death by some, so don't expect any outstanding conversions.
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