I've been a (paying) member of Ecademy for several years. I've enjoyed it and made a lot of friends and very useful contacts through it. Therefore I've been recommending it to anyone I think might find it useful.

However, they've recently introduced a referral scheme. Although you can use the site free-of-charge as a guest, if you were to subsequently upgrade, I would get a small reduction in my membership during your first year.

I'm concerned that someone who doesn't know me personally might think I was recommending Ecademy because of this. I'm not - but neither am I going to turn down their reward for growing the membership.

If you have any qualms at all about this, just delete the "&xref=29474" from the end of any link I sent you. They'll not know it was me who pointed you to the site and were you to join, I won't get rewarded. That's fine by me - and better than you not looking at the link or thinking I might be trying to take advantage of you.

On the other hand, if you like what you see of the site, let me know and I can generate an invitation for you. The benefit of doing that is that you can try out the features of the site properly for a month. I recommend taking advantage of the trial period before parting with money, even though it's not a great amount.

Clicking the box below should take you to my profile. If you're presented with a registration form, you can just ignore it and use the "Continue" link.