Crowdsourcing: Sabotaging our Value
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- Miguex0
I used to get angry at this, but I'm now positive that this movement can't be stopped. As technology becomes more available people are more inclined to give design a try.
You could say that people crowdsourcing design, don't really care about design in the first place, at least not enough to hire a professional, and maybe that's true.
But in the end, people want to save money and if crowdsourcing a logo is 10 bucks, why not give it a try? (I'm tying to be as objective as possible here). That's what I think these people think, the model makes sense if you look at it from the point of view of saving money. Quality work? that's chance, and these people are ok w/ that.
Similar thing is happening with Groupon, (which I have never used or seen yet, but friends of mine have similar concerns that we do with croudsourcing).
Apparently groupon makes it easy for people that don't know each other get together to buy something in particular (could be a service from a photographer for example) and get a deal based on volume (correct me if I'm wrong) meaning that if I get 5 friends to get a photoshoot, we all demand a volume discount over the original shoot. The photographer might get more work, but in order to compete will have to offer better deals than the other photographers on groupon.
- my GF is a groupon addict, it's not quite like that... she gets half price mani/pedi, restaurants, etc...vaxorcist
- well, but that manicurist prolly feels the same way as we do about crowdsourcing, that's what I meanMiguex
- a photographer can offer a deal outside of Groupon, so that doesn't really hold water. Groupon offers a way to gain new unique customers.dbloc
- new unique customers.dbloc
- exactly, groupon clients aren't doing anything for freereinitialize
- I read that groupon gives a biz $ upfront, and a % of buyers never actually show upvaxorcist