make an adsense site or affiliate site from ur home and go to ur friends place and click a lot on it and sign urself up for a lot of affiliate links for CPL of free signups.
Now you have maybe $10-20
IF op does this, don't count the money before its in your bank account.
I honestly have no suggestion, what methods or tricks that work for me.. Might not work for you.
And i honestly can't say how i select projects to try, you learn after a while.
Oh but i will give you one tip.
There is such a thing as "IM INFORMATION OVERLOAD" And this is a bad thing. You see all these theories, all these methods all these things you want to try. So you read and read to learn but you never put it into use.
My best tip is simple, Pick one thing and hammer it from all angles, eventually you will convert it And if you don't then im sure you learned a few tricks.
Also try to stay in the same niche in the start
For example if you do.. cpa. Don't mix offers (credit reports, weight loss etc) but pick one niche and stick with that one and make it convert.
Once you have momentum it's time to expand.