First, A Bit About Me
Hello, and thanks for popping by. I’m David Hurley, the “face” behind this Top5Programs blog.
For most of the last three decades I’ve been based in Japan, and for the last twenty years I’ve lived half way between Hiroshima and Miyajima. In Hiroshima, I work as a freelance English lecturer and language teacher.
I started my online affiliate marketing business back in 2007 when my daughter was four. Here is a photo my wife took of us on a trip to Nagasaki that year. (When this photo was taken we had no idea that, fourteen years later, my daughter would return to Nagasaki to enter Nagasaki University):
The digital chessboard: My hobby that hones strategic thinking
When I’m not teaching or working on my online business, I enjoy playing and studying chess online or socially.
Check out my chess blog: https://easychesstips.com
I play most of my online games at Gameknot.com as “hirohurl” – challenge me to a game any time!
I also play a lot of Splinterlands – an NFT monster card game built on the Hive blockchain. It fast and furious fun, so hop on board and challenge me to a game! Ask me nicely and I’ll gift you a monster NFT!
Top5Programs: 5 Tried And Tested Programs
Top5Programs.com is a blog that shows you how to work with five tried and tested online business programs to build a viable online business.
I have been working with all five programs for several years now. The newest program to make it onto my “Top 5” list for 2025 – LiveGood – was launched in December 2022. I joined the program as an affiliate in January 2023, and turned my first profit a few weeks later, and have been earning a nice side income with the program ever since. Based the strength of the affiliate program and the quality and value-for-money of their health supplements, several of which I have tested myself, I started a health and fitness blog – Fit50s.com – for people like myself who are in their fifties or beyond…
With Livegood as “the product,” the other four programs featured on this blog will help you to promote Livegood – or any other online business program you work with. You can use these four business programs to:
- Host your WordPress blogs and get top-quality online-business coaching. (Wealthy Affiliate)
- Offer a “funded proposal” to generate fast front-end profits. (Prosperity Marketing System)
- Generate leads, conversions and sales & manage your mailing lists. (Leadsleap)
- Automate your safelist mailing campaigns and boost your marketing efficiency (Traffic Zipper)
My Online Profit Formula: Focusing on What Truly Works
After years of trying to build “multiple streams of online income” I realized I needed to find a balance between “multiple streams” and a tighter “focus.”
Too often I’d end up chasing too many “opportunities” and going nowhere “mighty fast” like the Starship Enterprise on Warp 10!
What I needed was an online profit formula that I could rely on to generate profits month in and month out.
I found that working with five programs gave a good balance between “focus” and “multiple streams.”
Yes, I do work with other programs, such as safelists, traffic exchanges and other traffic providers to promote my online business.
However, it is the “Top Five Programs” that are featured on this blog which are the primary programs I focus on to build a profitable online business.
If Top5Programs.com teaches you just one thing, let it be to FOCUS on your core, tried and tested, programs.
If you have any questions, feel free to post a comment below, or drop me a line and I’ll get back to you.
All the best,
David Hurley
Top5Programs.com
#InspiredFocus