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Helping people start online businesses safely since 1997.

Neil Shearing was one of the first British Internet marketers. He was selling ebooks online in 1997, before the phrase "ebook" was coined, including one of the first-ever ebooks describing how people could create and sell their own ebooks online with almost zero upfront costs, called "How To Make Money On The Internet".

Neil has always been interested in helping other people start online businesses safely. With that aim in mind, he started http://www.ScamFreeZone.com in 1997, one of the first consumer protection websites, and http://www.NoMerchantAcct.com in 1999, which explained that people didn't need expensive merchant accounts to sell their own products online and showed them alternatives.

Always looking for innovative ways to help people make money online, Neil has tested many different ideas, and explained his successes in many step-by-step reports, videos, software and products. To help sell his own products, Neil started an affiliate program in 1999 and has since seen it track over a million dollars in sales. Neil's latest tips can be found at his Internet Marketing Strategies blog.

Neil hardly ever attends "dirt world" seminars, and is happy working from home in rural England with his wife and two children.