As business look for ways to outsource specific business tasks, many are turning to crowdsourcing as a way to fulfill their outsourcing needs. Crowdsourcing is the process of  outsourcing your business tasks to undetermined, usually a large group of people or community in the form of an open call.
Why use Crowdsourcing
For those who are looking for a way to minimize time and cost for outsourcing their tasks, crowdsourcing may an answer to your business needs. I understand that crowdsourcing may not work for every task or even every business owner. This is just an alternative option to meet your outsourcing needs.
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How can your recession proof your business to ensure that you don’t end up closing your business? Try implementing change into your business. I’ve been in business for several years and have found that if you are not open to change then you could be faced with the challenge of keeping your doors open.
There are many things that you can look at in your business that you might need to change in order to recession proof it and keep your doors open. The list below is a start list of things that you can do to help change the way …read more

No sooner did I ask about the next low cost country (LCC), than I stumbled onto the Gartner Group’s research on Outsourcing, which includes a list of the top 30 countries for offshore services.
Gartner publishes a lot of interesting business research, mostly on topics revolving around IT. Take any IT business topic which I have looked for information on in the past 5 years and Gartner has published a white paper on it. Content management, customer relationship management, SAP, enterprise software, you name it, Gartner covers it.  My only problem is, they also charge for it. I only hear about …read more