Microworkers – A Very Big Idea
Let’s face it – sometimes your to-do list is filled with a whole lot of little stuff you need done, and you feel kind of stuck. Stuck because you don’t have enough work to hire someone – even on a temporary basis – but you need to free up some time and get some things accomplished or your business will suffer. That’s where Microworkers can help. Will they send tiny little people to tackle your to-do list? No, but it’s almost as cool!
Read on to find out more about this fantastic concept for connecting workers and entrepreneurs…
What is Microworkers?
Direct from the Microworkers site:
Microworkers is an innovative, International online platform that connects Employers and Workers from around the world. Our unique approach guarantees Employers that a task paid is a task successfully done, while at the same time guaranteeing Workers that a job completed is a job paid.
Just as its name suggests, the tasks assigned to Workers and paid for by Employers are simple and quick, mostly completed in a few minutes, thus, are called “micro jobs”.
So what does that mean to you? Let’s say you just posted a killer YouTube video, and you want to get some buzz going. Would it help to have a whole bunch of people watch it and give it a thumbs-up? Sure, but short of either creating a ton of fake personas or asking all your friends and family to check it out, it’s going to take quite a while, unless… You hire Microworkers! Pay them $0.10 each – or whatever you think it’s worth – to watch and rate your video. 500 likes for fifty bucks might just give it the boost you need to start the viral video ball rolling.
There are also a lot of social media applications for the Microworkers concept. For instance, when you launch a new Facebook page, you need 25 ‘Likes’ before you can get your vanity URL. While Facebook isn’t keen on this type of thing, you could get those likes right away using Microworkers.
Some more Microworkers examples:
- Rating videos or articles
- Simple sign-ups
- Downloading applications
- Social bookmarking tasks
- Creating backlinks
- Forum participation
- Website visits
- Suggesting leads
- Voting up contest entries
- Adding comments
- Writing reviews or articles
- Much more!
However you use the Microworkers site, we think it’s a pretty cool idea. The site is growing quickly too. And that makes sense in today’s economic climate. A record number of businesses are being created, social media is taking off in a huge way, and at the same time, there are throngs of people all over the world in need of work. Microworkers can help address all these needs. So take a look at their site and think about how they can help you get more done.
