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The Power of the Crowd: Is crowdsourcing right for your small business?
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Posted by: SBOC Team, Feb 6, 2012

You may think you know the definition of crowdsourcing, but there are a lot of interpretations to its meaning. In the words of Northwestern University professor Jeff Howe, who coined the term, crowdsourcing is “the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.”   Regardless of how you define it, there is an argument to be made that crowdsourcing is...
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4 Questions Small Business Owners Should Ask Before Delegating
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Posted by: SBOC Team, Aug 5, 2011

A small magazine publisher, who makes a yearly salary of $100,000, copy-edits the entire magazine herself instead of hiring professional proofreaders at a rate of $10 an hour. After writing his 10,000th line of code, without any help from junior programmers, an MIT-educated computer scientist begins to make errors that could jeopardize his successful network design business. The head of a graphic design firm squanders hours every week developing her own photographs and running layouts to...
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