James Siminoff

Mahalo Answers Review

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I was looking to see if I could find the total number of Voicemails left per month in the US last night.  I decided that I would try out Mahalo’s new service, Answers.

Overall I think that the service is great.  I posted my question and offered $100 (Mahalo takes 25% as a transaction fee so the winner only gets $75) which is their maximum as a bounty for the best answer.  I decided to max out the bounty for fun… most people post questions without any compensation or $1-$5.

Almost immediately I received about 100 views and about 4 answers.  One of the answers went about solving the problem in a way that I had not thought of.  As you can imagine I have been working in the voicemail market for a while so it was nice to see a fresh approach…

I was able to chat a bit with the people answering to get deeper to the facts and in just under 24 hours I had at total of 9 answers and one that I felt deserved the $100.  You can see it here.

From a business side I love what Mahalo is doing, creating enormous amounts of searchable content, from a consumer side I would use Mahalo answers again as it saves me time from having to Google around and find the stuff myself.

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