Want to Build a Crowdsourcing Application?

Crowdsourcing is a popular tool to get ideas, inspiration and feedbacks from other people.  More and more business owner want to develop a crowdsourcing application to benefit their business. The question is HOW? Let's follow Simon Willison's presentation "Building Crowdsourcing Applications"to get some tips. 

Tips for Building a Crowdsourcing Application:

• Consider usability, visual design and copy-right of your application. 
• To be Flexible-Users may not share the same goal with you. They may use the application in many different ways.  
• Encouragement-Something like medals and points will motivate users to do almost everything. 
• Don’t be afraid- Even flawed systems can produce a fascinating result. 
• Consider hard about the questions you ask.
• Let users have a minimal barrier to entry-Such as a simple registration process. 
• Do not forget to consider ethics, legal liability accuracy issues.

Click here to Listen to the Audio of Willison's presentation.  

How is Crowdsourcing on Pinterest Benefit Your Business

A right social media can be a really effective crowdsourcing tool for your business. 

One of the hottest crowdsourcing social media in the market is Pinterest;

How Does Pinterest Work?

Think Pinterest as an online pin board that everyone can generate ideas and visions. Pinterest has almost every categories from food to home, design to fashion, and gardening to humor. Business owner can easily to target customers by using different categories. It is extremely easy to share things on your board. You can pin everything from you electronic devices and other websites also re-pin other people's pin. Click on one pin, it will lead you to the source website directly. By this way, your product can be dispersed quickly and easily. 

Inspiration 

Pinterest can work for double ways. As well as you share items with others to generate your business, you can also see what other users are sharing at the same time. You can get some inspirations for you own business. Also, it helps you to have a better understanding of the market. You can determining trends and the most popular things in the market and develop your products. 

Market Your Product

Pinterest is not an online shop, but when you pin your product on your board with a price tag and the link to your website. Your product will go on the Pinterest gift page automatically. This will increase traffic to your site and generate business. 

Other Benefits

Like other social networks, Pinterest helps you to interact with others. You can understand the market by read and respond comments on your post. By using social media, every internet user become your potential customers. It is a free platform for you to develop your business. 

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