Does this have anything to do with going around locally and giving business fliers advertising your consulting business, and then just referring them to "legitimate" consultans and collecting a fee?
No, not at all! Although, that seems interesting, my method is not that complicated.
Heh very common method over on HF - just sign up for some offers that pay you per referral, print out a professional looking flier, distribute around neighborhood saying "Hey, saw you guys have a pretty good business - got some ideas on how to make it even better!"
Have logo, website, profit, done. Nice and easy