We Need Us Lots of Writing

The ad:

Write Us Lots of 500 word articles for our websites (Midtown East) Reply to: ass@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-11-21, 3:53PM EST

We own lots of small websites and we need 500 word articles written about certain topics. Most of the topics are about finance, and managing your budget. We will provide style guide and detailed topics. We will assign you 20 articles to write at a time. We have plenty of work. We are looking to meet the person and develop a long term relationship. The person can work from anyway as long as they are responsive, reliable and have a reference.

The pay is flexible between $5-$10 per article. After we establish the working relationship we will give out articles in 100 article blocks to be completed. The first block will be a test of 20 articles. The pay will be 1099 and we will provide references of other freelancers we work with so that you ensure you will be paid.

We need over 500 articles written in total by the end of year, so please apply.
College Students Welcome.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks.

* it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
* Compensation: $5-10 per article

Don’t you love these content mills? Here, have a block of 100 articles, we only need them by the end of next week. And hell, we’re feeling generous so you can have ‘em at $5 a pop. Good thing you have us to keep you writing, huh? Plus you can work from anyway, that’s right anyway as long as you have a reference. And since we know $5 a pop workers are so reliable as well as responsive, it seems like a match made in content mill heaven. But wait, there will be a test first. One or two articles won’t be enough for us to see if you’re reliable and responsive, so we’re testing you out with 20 articles. That oughta prove your worth!

Oh and they need 500 articles written in the next month, clearly they’re going for quality here. I’d think twice before I threw these jobs out to college students though. They have enough trouble doing their homework.