A couple months ago I decided to put another idea I had into action and see how much money I could make with the least amount of effort and also keeping the budget to $0 or at least really low. My method was to find at least 1 affiliate program that paid me per lead instead of per sale and then use free ways to advertise it. I thought about this when I realized that its pretty easy to get free sign ups but much harder to turn an opt-in into a sale so naturally I thought it would be better to offer a program that would pay you a reasonable amount for just getting the sign up. Once I found that, I just wrote a few ads and starting advertising them. (im talking about a real affiliate program and not typical cpa offers)