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How is crowd sourcing your web design different from outsourcing?
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Author Sabirafadila
22nd June 2017
Businesses usually mix the terms crowd sourcing and outsourcing that actually are two different things. Despite all the differences, crowd sourcing and outsourcing offer same benefits for someone looking for professional web development services. Both of them handle the website that you would otherwise create on your own. But it is quite understandable that these two are entirely different and you should know the differences before selecting any option.

The quality, efficiency, and cost of web designs can differentiate between the failure and success for your start-up or SMBs. This is one of the reasons why it’s essential that you carefully ponder on whether to outsource or to crowd source your web design projects as there exists a very fine line that discerns outsourcing from crowd sourcing particularly when you’re not very aware of these terms.

In outsourcing, you need to choose the person or entity to get a website developed, whereas, in crowd sourcing, you need to choose the web development skills and specifications instead of the person. To put this simple, outsourcing assigns work to a certain organizational entity whereas in crowd sourcing you allocate the website project to an unorganized series of freelance web designers.

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