First up, what is crowdsourced delivery? Crowdsourced delivery is using crowdsourcing methodology to direct tasks to individuals on an open platform, or in other words outsourcing your jobs and services to the crowd.

Crowdsourced Delivery is the latest of a new wave of crowdsourcing business ventures that have disrupted the global market. Services such as Uber, Menulog & Lyft are leading examples of this service technology being used to fully capitalise on crowdsourced delivery. The key to why and how crowdsourced delivery works is simply following single design philosophy. To become a service of connection...

Humans are inherently busy with their lives, from days of scavenging for food and water it is now a battle of securing money and saving time. Time has become a precious commodity in modern society with every second that can be tied to a monetary value. Crowdsourcing platforms (2-sided market networks) are used to create a service that can trump over established industries. Tapping into a workforce with a low barrier to entry to start, Uber and the following organisations are connecting people. What's worth your time?

It's a Friday night, you just finished a long work week. You fall back on your couch and decide you're going to get takeaway, the restaurant is 15 minutes away. You can spend the next 30 minutes going out and picking up your food or do you spend the $4.95 to get the food delivered via Menulog?

This is the principal crowdsourced delivery services are built on. Buying 30 minutes of your time back through these services can trump the monetary cost. But why stop at crowdsourced delivery? What about crowdsourcing tasks?

The boundaries of this type of crowdsourced businesses don't stop with people and food delivery. Take Airtasker for example, the people who sign themselves up to offer their skills have signed themselves up to be crowdsourced to the public. Allowing users to list tasks that need to be done around the house and what is the connection here? Convenience. Convenience and time saving is the secret sauce, allowing people who use their app or service save time in a convenient way. People are paying for time so that things that need to be done, get done.

Crowdsourcing goes deeper than food delivery and task completion, crowdsourcing can be a tool to solve your most pressing issues.

The next great innovative idea is waiting to be found and the key to finding it is unlocking the potential of crowdsourcing. But how do I crowdsource?

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