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Getting Results From Crowds

Today I will be talking about how we can work online and get the result that we want as a service provider. Working online also known as Crowdsourcing or Outsourcing is very popular both in developing and developed countries. Now a days, you will see many freelancers and even the companies use the Crowdsourcing platform to get the projects and become successful. There are lot of opportunities as day by day the top companies are using Crowdsourcing to get their job done in low price but with the good quality. The another advantage of Crowdsourcing is that you can tap the resources from all around the World.

There are various site offering the platform to work online. Some of the popular online Agencies that you can use to post the job or get the job are as below:

• odesk.com:  oDesk offers the world’s largest, most comprehensive and fastest-growing online workplace. Businesses are no longer limited to local talent or traditional hiring cycles. With a thriving online workforce available on-demand, you can post a job for free, field applications in hours and rapidly hire the best person for the job, regardless of where in the world they happen to be. More online work happens on oDesk than anywhere else on the web. In 2011 alone, businesses posted over a million jobs and contractors earned more than $220 million.
• Freelancer.com: Freelancer is the world’s largest outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace for small business. They have hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers from all over the world. They have over 3,372,469 employers and freelancers globally from over 234 countries & regions. Through our website, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, and accounting & legal services.
• Elance.com: Elance is a platform for online employment, Elance helps businesses hire and manage in the cloud. For businesses looking to staff-up a team on an hourly or project basis, Elance offers instant access to qualified professionals who work online and provides the tools to hire, view work as it progresses and pay for results.
• Guru.com: Guru is the online marketplace for freelance talent.
• Getacoder.com: GetACoder is a Global Services Marketplace doing business in more than 200 countries.

I have been working as online Crowdsourcing service provider from last 5 Years. I would like to provide few basic advice to build great relationship with your clients and become successful Crowdsourcing provider.

My Case Study Published in Getting Results From Crowds Book

• Don’t Make Fake Promises: This is the most important point to remember to build the trust and relationship with your client. You should tell your clients about your strength and weaknesses. Don’t take the project which doesn’t fit in your skills set. You are not a superman who knows everything and can do any task. We all are normal human being who has set of expertise skills. So, just work on that.
• Communication and Time Management: Ensure good communication and Time Management which quick responses, fixed delivery dates and effective task management is very important.
• Online Availability: You need to be online using various tools such as Skype, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo and others as required to let your client know that you are available if there is any urgent issues. This bridge the gap of distance and trust as in Crowdsourcing the client is always far from our physical reach.
• Build Relationship: Working online, Communication, Time Management, Task Management are very important to make the work smooth in Crowdsourcing . But it is very necessary to build good relationship with your clients to maintain long terms and ongoing relationship. This means that you need to be friendly and also talk about various personal and business matters, which will bridge the gap from being unknown person to become the trustable and friendly person.
• Build a Clean Resume and Showcase the Portfolio: You need to build a clean resume and showcase the portfolio. To add up you can use the testimonials and feedback from your previous clients.

Further Reading: Getting Results From Crowds: This book provides practical, pragmatic, clear guidance on how you can draw on the power of crowds to grow your business. Filled with real-life case studies and useful examples, it gives you everything you need to know to create success in a world where talent can be anywhere.

Thanks for taking time to read this article and I hope you all will be benefited from this. You can also read my Case Study in this Book. Just take a note about my advices but make your own good strategy of winning. All the best and Happy Crowdsourcing.