I know it's easy to think that everyone trying to show others how to monetize their skills is trying to make a quick buck, but that's really not the case. I've been writing for 6 years and have 300k+ readers/month.

Give it another look. If you still think my stuff is scammy, well, you're entitled to your own opinion.

But don't let your heuristic of "talking about money = scam!" get in the way.

There is some extremely valuable stuff in my blog and courses, and 99% of it is free.

Fair enough -- my heuristic is perhaps too coarsely honed. :)

It just took a long time to get from the article title to the realization that I was being asked to sign up for a list. It's funny I just now realized the list is free....