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Crowd Sourcing For Entrepreneurs: 7 Ways To Use It

Dec 17, 2010
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Entrepreneur: Crowd Sourcing For Entrepreneurs: 7 Ways To Use It

From naming products to designing logos to soliciting sales leads and conducting usability tests, let your customers help, Lisa Barone says. She shows you how to harness the power of your online audience.


“One thing I’ve learned while running a small business is that it’s hard. Another thing I learned is that it doesn’t always pay to do everything yourself. By crowdsourcing parts of the process you free yourself up to focus on the core of what you’re building instead of getting lost in the details.

Sometimes you can even help build your community by turning over certain parts to them. Crazy, right?”

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