Crowdsourcing after Cloudsoucing for SMEs

BANGALORE, INDIA:

It's time to start considering the collective wisdom of the online crowd that goes beyond the boundaries of offshore companies that have full-fledged outsourcing setup to get your job done. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a start-up, an SME or an established company, the online crowdsourcing market offers you more choice to choose the best to help your business reduce costs, increase profit and accelerate growth

After outsourcing, it's time for crowdsourcing for SMEs and entrepreneurs to cash in on how to get their job done online at best possible price and quality. "Build Me a Website", "Get Traffic to My Site", "Design Me a Logo..." are the types of projects that seem to figure high on the online crowdsourcing marketplace like freelancer.com, Directfreelance.com, etc.

What is Crowdsourcing?

Crowdsourcing” is a relatively recent concept that involves outsourcing tasks, to online communities, that were traditionally performed by an employee or a third-party like an traditional outsourcing company. Crowdsourcing blurs the line between pros and amateurs creating a diverse marketplace of freelancers.

Crowdsourcing enables you to send out an open call to the large group of crowd online called freelance marketplace. The online outsourcing taps into the combined intelligence of huge online communities to accomplish tasks that an SME would outsource to a third-party service provider or complete themselves.

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In the same way individuals and businesses can post goods for sale on eBay, users can post projects, tasks, and jobs for users around the world to complete.

Crowdsourcing empowers SMEs, entrepreneurs

With the country's Internet population seeing a 28% growth in 2011, and with the recent launch of the cheapest tablet in the world from India, more Indians can now easily connect with the 3 million professionals looking for work and looking to hire freelancers. The marketplace opens doors of income-generating possibilities for anyone with a computer and an Internet connection.

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