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Crowdsourcing sweeps Aussie business

Small business are following the lead of banks and telecommunications companies and outsourcing jobs in other countries, reports SBS's Johnny Luu.

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With outsourced services often costing a tenth of the price of local ones, they are perhaps too hard for Aussie businesses to ignore.

The outsourcing trend has evolved a new facet; crowd-sourcing.

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Crowd-sourcing is when businesses post specific tasks online, inviting freelanceers the world over to quote the price they would charge to perform them.

As an example, Johnny Luu even outsourced part of this report.


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