You URGENTLY need an unspecified number of 300 word articles, for which you will provide links. Links = research. Research = time. So if researching a topic on which someone has no background, research would require at least one hour. Then at least 1/2 hour to organize an article outline, then another hour to write, proof, edit and complete the article. MINIMUM time 2-1/2 hours. And you want to pay $1.50 for 2-1/2 hours of research & creative writing? That's sixty cents an hour. What do you expect to get for sixty cents an hour? Anything intelligable, original, useable, other than something from a bubble gum wrapper?
This is either the great depression or you are completely out of touch with reality! People who can write get paid for their skills and intellectual capital.
ANYONE who would accept your offer of $1.50 per article either can't write, doesn't understand your offer, or has NO LIFE and does not want or need any money.
Don't insult good writers by offering great depression-level wages. Either pay a respectable level of compensation to get a worthwhile 100% original product, or do it yourself, and pay yourself sixty cents an hour and see how long you work at that rate. Since you won't, how in the world do you expect talented writers to do it?
Think about it.
p.s. Dominos is at the door and I will be tipping the driver 3 articles worth of your business. And all he is doing is delivering a pizza someone else made off an order some other person wrote up, and they all make minimum wage.
What do you make? $2.00 an hour? Perhaps that's why you're such a big spender!
p.s. My bid is $100 per article.