Crowdsourcing International: Is It A Legitimate Opportunity?

Crowdsourcing International: Is it a Legitimate Opportunity?
By Jason-Dennis Stewart

In the world of network marketing, there are hundreds of opportunities to choose from. As someone who may be interested in getting involved in the industry or a veteran in the industry that may be seeking another network marketing opportunity, you must consider carefully any new opportunity that you may pursue. You may have heard of a relatively new network marketing opportunity from Crowdsourcing International. Crowd Sourcing International was established in Dallas, TX in 2008. One of the companys goals is to maintain a database which assists in identifying the location of vehicles. Independent company consultants collect license plate numbers monthly and add them to a database. The information is then released to interested businesses and law enforcement agencies.

One of the major differences between Crowdsourcing International and other network marketing opportunities that involve direct sales of a product is that the independent consultants are not responsible for actually selling a product in order to be compensated. Rather, they are responsible to help produce the product (the database) from which information is sold to clients. Executives at Crowdsourcing International have called this process network production.

When the company was in its infancy, it experienced an explosive amount of growth, but by the admission of leaders of the company, the companys infrastructure was not at all prepared for the traffic that induced from attempting to service thousands of consultants nationwide. Many consultants complained of long holding times when attempting to contact the main office, problems with receiving commission checks, and problems with their company issued marketing websites. The sum of these types of issues caused many consultants who joined the company initially to suspend their activities or quit all together. However, to the credit of the executives at Crowdsourcing International, they learned from their experiences as a new organization and attempted to address the problems that were previously limiting the productivity of their consultants. They boosted the staffing and customer service representatives to decrease response times to consultants; they brought in a new executive staff with several years of experience in the network marketing industry; they also added increased functionality and aesthetics to the consultant websites. Perhaps most importantly, they revised the compensation plan to add more potential streams of income for its consultants.

Any person that may be seeking a home-based business or network marketing opportunity should carefully research the opportunity before deciding to participate. There are an almost endless number of network marketing opportunities and a person can be financially successful in many of them. When looking at any opportunity, it is important to take into account the leadership of the parent company as well as your potential sponsors ability to plug you into a marketing system that will yield continuous targeted leads in order to grow your business.

However, if you are interested in a compensation plan in which you can make money without direct product sales and are intrigued by the idea of network production, then Crowdsourcing International may be an opportunity that you should explore further. Good luck and I wish you much success in your business.