Crowdsourcing companies

Do you know what "crowdsourcing companies" stands for? While the title is a bit befuddling it breaks down quite easily. You have a company. Size does not matter, whether there is only you or the corporation is so huge it has a legal department and is traded on Wall Street. At some point in time this company will undoubtedly need help getting tasks accomplished. For multiple reasons others have put together "crowds" of people as "sources" for you to pick from and grow your company instantly!

A few of these crowdsourcing companies are CloudCrowd.com, Samasource.com, Crowdflower.com, Liveops.com, Amazon Mechanical Turk (mturk.com) and Optask.com. With further explanation you'll see how much these can help immediately for the short term goals or stretched out over lengthy periods of years.

Cloud Crowd is a growing pool of talented people working from home or their own offices for tasks such as data processing, data entry, image processing, internet research, product merchandising, content filtering and editing. Each worker is initially tested for quality and proves their skills and dedication by each new task performed.

Sama Source is very much along the same lines but this company provides the resources for refugees in Kenya to women in rural Pakistan to perform work via the Internet effectively changing their lives forever.

Crowd Flower is cut of the same cloth based in San Francisco. One of their dynamite keywords is "elastic workforce" and this applies to all these companies mentioned.

Liveops, like the others, is a growing successful source of Independent Contractors, heavily monitored to answer the phones for many infomercials, be the initial contact and completion for insurance companies and stand tall in times of disaster with thousands of agents available to help with weather or food recalls.

Mturk.com excels at data processing, image processing, multiple tasks and transcription.

Optask provides the same of web research, marketing, lead generation and remote chores.

Setting up with these companies is usually minimal of a few minutes. If you contact them they all will be happy to suggest other ways to save your overhead in your building by cutting cost. They'll help you complete short tasks or mass volumes. Working with these companies and their Independent Contractors will save you headaches of building space, health care, huge utility bills, personnel departments and the vast cost of computers. Consider crowdsourcing companies to complete yours.