My first sponsor was Pacificcoast, a pillow selling website. I've never received a check from em or anything. One day I was surfing the web and found it. They paid $10 for every 1000 visits. I made a crappy website and clicked the link about 100-200 times everyday (stupid i know). And back then they didnt have nice real-time statistics, they gave you a link code. And you wait a month or two for a check if you ever reached the min payout. There was no way to see if you got any clicks at all.