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Crowdsourcing gets the job done
It is not just small businesses using these services (crowdsourcing). The design service DesignCrowd has been used by Harvard Business School's Innovation and Growth Research Centre, the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand and the British sports footwear company, Hi-Tec. Read more
Crowdsourcing Website Launches 'Fairer, Better' Crowdsourcing Model
Design crowdsourcing service DesignCrowd has launched an innovative, new design crowdsourcing model that addresses the flaws with the traditional crowdsourcing process through what it calls "Crowdsourcing 2.0" - crowdsourcing where multiple designers get paid.
DesignCrowd now allows customers with graphic design projects to handpick their favorite designers from around the world while keeping the project open to other designers.
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Crowdsourcing a game changer for Australian business
Small businesses are tuning to the cost and efficiencies of crowdsourcing and self-employed people are using it as a new platform to tout their expertise to a worldwide market...
Alongside odesk.com, websites touting crowd sourcing pepper the internet from designcrowd.com to freelancer.com and elance.com. The first two are run out of Australia and are a result of mergers or offshore takeovers.
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The stars of Australia's crowd-sourcing hub
It's no wonder crowd-sourcing has been described as "outsourcing on steroids" – few trends have had as much impact on the way small businesses can compete with their bigger end of town, by giving them access to low-cost, high quality services from anywhere in the world across the internet.
"It's about giving opportunities to people who have talent but don't necessarily have their foot in the door in the industry," Lynch says (founder of DesignCrowd).
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15+ Great Ways to Find Web Design and Development Work
(On Designcrowd) you can browse the design contests in the "web design" category, pick projects you’d like to have a crack at, and set a small "participation 'base' payment" before you submit a design. Once the client picks the favored design, if you’re the design contest winner, DesignCrowd will pay you your fee via PayPal. Read more
Crowdsourcing site launches agency-friendly model
Crowdsourcing design company DesignCrowd has launched a new crowdsourcing business model which it says eliminates the "threat" crowdsourcing poses to traditional agencies.
Using the agency’s graphic design outsourcing platform, design studios, ad agencies, printing and web hosting companies can offer design services and crowdsourcing to their own clients, using DesignCrowd’s 13,000 designers as their own "virtual team".
The platform can be completely white labelled and rebranded and has been built with agencies, printers and other resellers in mind.
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New Crowdsourcing Model Lets Agencies and Printing Companies Harness Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing design company DesignCrowd has developed a new crowdsourcing business model to let design agencies, printers & other design related businesses use crowdsourcing with their own clients...
Design studios, ad agencies, printing and web hosting companies can use the new graphic design outsourcing platform to offer design services and crowdsourcing to their own clients and leverage DesignCrowd's 13,000 designers as their own virtual team.
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