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What Bill Gates Predicted About Content Marketing

Convince & Convert

Its most intrinsic value was that it could be spread globally at little cost. Lacking in resources, they recruited CrowdSource to help them expand beyond reviews and menus. Together, CrowdSource and Urbanspoon created an online dining dictionary , where food definitions included fun facts, taste attributes, and associated flavors.

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5 Ways Crowdsourcing Improves Your Content Marketing

Convince & Convert

Content creation remains a huge undertaking, however, and as Jay Baer puts it, the opportunity costs are significant. Crowdsourcing, when done properly, can play a pivotal role with your content marketing. Crowdsourcing, when done properly, can play a pivotal role with your content marketing.

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Case of Creative Crowdsourcing: Let Your Fans Guide Your Brand

Mindjumpers

That statement inspired me to present you with a good example of a company that allowed its fans to speak up through an engaging, creative and inspiring crowdsourcing campaign that I think we can all learn from. By making people feel part of the company’s core processes, you build a stronger relationship with them. Problem solving.

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Effective collaboration with wikis | DavePress

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This might be because they have a track record of getting involved on this issue, or that they know their way around these kinds of processes. The cost for Wikispaces goes from free to £4,000 a year, depending on what you are after. Tags: codesign , collaboration , crowdsourcing , development , wikis. There is no tenth point.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Drive a strategy development process that results in a project vision, objectives, roadmap and success metrics. Each workshop is its own learning process. Ok, ok, maybe they do in terms of commercial viability, but inherently there is motion from channel to channel based on content, time, cost, benefits, etc. Process of Change.

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5 Ways You Can Use Facebook Groups to Benefit Your Blog

ProBlogger

With the cost and logistics of getting together on a regular basis being a barrier, many masterminds are now organised online through the use of regular group video calls like Skype or Google Hangout. It’s both crowdsourcing and marketing perfection – creating something based on what people actually want and is relevant to them.

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Four Metrics for Measuring Social ROI

Mindjumpers

It can also open doors for crowdsourcing: the next metric in our list. Crowdsourcing. Another very important metric of social media ROI is the percentage of cut costs from companies’ R&D (Research and Development) and Innovation activities due to crowdsourcing.

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