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Effective Use of Crowdsourcing for Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs

From Mitchell York, About.com GuideJuly 18, 2010

If you are a small business and haven't heard of crowdsourcing...well, the time has come.

How would you like to save hundreds or perhaps thousands of dollars on projects ranging from designing logos to writing business plans to designing websites finding language translation services?

There is a growing number of web resources available to help small businesses accomplish their goals by putting a description of their project online, along with the price they are willing to pay, and then letting the creativity that is abundant on the Internet have at it. Rather than single-sourcing your project to one vendor you may have heard of, you put it out to the virtual crowd. Here are some examples of how small business entrepreneurs are using crowdsourcing to save money and increase creativity.

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