David Hurley, Miyajima, Japan

Who Am I?

Hello! My name’s David Hurley.

I’m a British bloke who lives in Hiroshima, Japan.

How Did I End Up In Japan?

Well, after graduating from the University of York, with a degree in Politics and English Literature in 1985 and with no intention of getting a “career”, I spent several years teaching English in England, Italy, Germany and Japan.

To tell you the truth, I could’ve spent the rest of my life in Italy, but I wanted to experience life outside of Europe for a while and had always been interested in Japan – also, Japanese language schools paid well and the work was not difficult… I stayed a year, left, missed it, went back, left again, missed it again, returned in 1999 and have been here ever since!

How I Got Started On The Internet…

Japanese Mahjong Set

It all started back in 2001 or so when I set up a basic HTML website and began writing about Japanese mahjong and other stuff.

A year later I started adding some Japanese mahjong sets, comics and other Japan-related goods to a couple of my websites.

At first, I never really expected to sell anything, but to my amazement – and delight – orders started to trickle in. As my confidence grew, I added to the range of products and my sales continued to increase.

It turned out that I had found a lucrative little niche. It’s been “a nice little earner” for several years now, even though the dollar continues to weaken against the mighty Japanese yen…

You can check out one of my old HTML websites at http://japanese-mahjong.com – it’s not very pretty, but it certainly is effective. Type “Japanese mahjong sets” into Google and you’ll see what I mean: TOTAL NICHE DOMINATION!! Actually, that only happened after I’d found a trustworthy group of expert Internet marketing mentors who taught me HOW to “dominate your niche”, as I’ll explain in a moment…

Move Over, Affiliate Marketers… Here I Come!

Anyway, by 2007 I was ready to try something new. My games business was doing well, but every time I get an order I have to “pack and post” it. Wouldn’t it be great if I could make a ton of money without having to handle any goods myself! That way, I could travel anywhere in the world while making a living completely online…

I started to investigate various Internet affiliate marketing business opportunities and in April 2007 I signed up for one that promised “multiple levels of online income”. I was pretty sure I could make it work, after all I had several years’ experience selling Japanese games to customers all over the word, right??

Red arrow = Internet marketing losses!

… Totally wrong!

I had to learn a whole new set of marketing skills, and was suddenly “investing” a large chunk of the profit from my games business into my new Internet marketing business and not seeing any sales, let alone profits… month after month…

I’d been set up with a “plug in profit” style of website… But I increasingly felt as if I’d simply been SET UP… And it wasn’t only me. I found out there were DOZENS of poor souls struggling in the dark, wondering why the promise of “multiple streams of income” had resulted in “multiple streams of expenses”…

Learn From Your Mistakes & Never Give Up!

Towards the end of 2007 a small network of successful Internet marketers (Ken Troyer, Cyn Minnaar, Jeff Casmer, Jeff Schuman, Suzanne Morrison) got together to form the Affiliate Power Group.

They were offering lifetime memberships at heavily discounted rates so I jumped on board finally began to get some seriously good advice about where I was going wrong and what to do about it.

Affiliate Power Group Mentors

I committed the next couple of years to turning around my affiliate marketing business and learning how to start making serious money on the Internet…

I wouldn’t say I’m there yet, but after a lot of remedial work I am out of the woods and making money with affiliate marketing as well as with my games business. Even better, I’m using what I’ve learned from the Affiliate Power Group to improve my games business as well, so I’d like to say right here,

“Thank you to the APG mentors for helping me to make it happen…”

Why I’m Different…

My experience has taught me a lot about what to do and what NOT to do when starting an online business, whether you want to sell your own products, or sell other people’s products or a mixture of both.

Also, I’m really fed up of seeing people get ripped off and torn to shreds by the Internet marketing sharks when so many of the best resources for setting up and promoting an online business are either FREE or low cost. I’ve experienced what it is like to get ripped off by these guys and that’s why I want to make sure it doesn’t happen to YOU. That’s why I’m placing at your disposal the knowledge and experience I’ve built up over the last few years of affiliate marketing and niche marketing.

If you have any questions, please Contact Me and I will get back to you.

Best wishes,

David Hurley

Hiroshima, Japan

September 2010

P. S. If you are looking for an experienced and dedicated team of Internet marketing mentors, I seriously recommend the Affiliate Power Group. Right now they are offering a $1 trial membership. Becoming a life member with them was the best move I made for my online business success.

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