Using the ASK option on CrowdWisdom

We launched CrowdWisdom's ASK option on 1st of July. It is different from other platforms in the sense that there is more definitiveness in the answer provided by consumers. For example, one user who was wondering why students donot start on their own asked

Why most students in India study for jobs not for a business?

Typically when one posts such stuff on social media or Q&A sites, you get very detailed and useful responses on opinions. Crowdwisdom too has a comments section that enables you provide the detailed response. What we have done additionally is enable you to get %s for each of the potential choices and in that sense more definitiveness. It also enables more analytics driven support for the user. The disadvantage is that a user can post a question only after having done some research on that subject.

In this case some 16 people answered the question. The user had a few hypothesis and the winning answer at the moment appears to be -

'Don't know how to start a business'

We get on an average about 30 odd responses per question and everyday 1-2 users ask a few questions. As Traffic keeps increasing (it is only 50 days since launch), we anticipate more responses per question. Our UI is also going through renewal making it easy for users to navigate through the questions and answers. We will be introducing advanced analytics to help our users over the next 3 months.

Our most popular questions are around Politics followed by Movies and life. We have numerous questions around Investments, Brands, Fitness and so on. Eventually, we are likely to cover 18 categories. Read this article on all our questions around a day in the life of a middle class Indian