Yes, Kerry, but you're a marketer, not a writer. There is a vast difference between the two.

Certainly, marketing works on the weakminded. However, writing intellectual content to the thinking human being is quite another matter. Writing for readers is extremely difficult as only 5% of humanity actually sits down to read and think. The rest are slaves to the market.

If you're a writer, you're not using money or something else as a hook. That's commercial writing, copy writing, marketing, or promotional writing.

If you're a thinker, which is what a writer is, you're writing content that makes people think seriously, or you're entertaining them with fantasy, sci fi, or mance, or you're providing them with the news (journalism), etc.

So, yes, I'm sure you sell. I wouldn't go near a newsletter for all the tea in China because everybody who uses them is always promoting one thing or another. I feel used. I loathe advertising and promotional material.