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One of the biggest problems start-ups have is finding enough resources to do a lot of mundane tasks, especially around marketing and sales development.  A new service may provide some inexpensive options to help build marketing collateral, sales opportunities and mailing lists in a time and cash strapped environment. 

Bellevue, WA-based Smartsheet, a project-management software firm, announced it has formed a partnership with Amazon to deliver outsourcing services to the masses. The new release, called Smartsourcing, is powered by the 100,000 virtual workers in Amazon Mechanical Turk. Each outsourced task, such as finding a list of articles, e-mail addresses, or experts on a topic, costs between $0.01 and $5.

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