Like most successful freelancers, Brett Slater of Slater's Garage Ads & Audio earns a majority of
his income from clients who hire him outright, agree on a contract, and
compensate him for all his work on their projects. But roughly 15 to 20
percent of the audio and video producer's income is generated from an
unlikely source: crowdsourcing websites and contests.
"I started doing video as a hobby," says Slater, a longtime radio man who added video production to his freelance repertoire in 2007. "I got hooked on YouTube and started looking at the video contests for fun. And they started paying off."
We're not talking chump change. In 2008, Slater took the $20,000 grand prize in a contest sponsored by the Maine Association of Realtors (see video) and the $15,000 grand prize in a contest held by Honda (see video). The time he spent creating each short video? The better part of a weekend.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Crowdsourcing: Opportunity or Time Suck? - Finding Freelancing Opportunities - Entrepreneur.com
Author: Michelle Goodman
