About Us

World4Brains.com is an automated Global Consulting and Innovation Think Tank that helps companies (and other organizations) innovate and solve problems, or grow bigger and better - at the price clients are willing and able to pay.

Hundreds of well-credentialed consultants and accomplished innovators from around the world and across all required expertise categories simultaneously collaborate with each other and contribute their best ideas, advice and solutions - thanks to an innovative payment system that rewards all valuable input given. World4Brains Clients are protected by a 100% money-back guarantee.

World4Brains.com was founded by its CEO, Arne Klingenberg, with the great assistance of his expert team of professionals (with special thanks & credits going to Miyuki, Eugene, Nataly, Bilyana & Adrian!)

It is a start-up by Beam Publishing Pty. Ltd. - an Internet Content Provider and Incubator situated in tropical Queensland, Australia. The site entered public beta in June 2009 after four months of extensive private testing. World4Brains will be spun-off as a separate corporate entity at the right time, in the right place and with the right partners.

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Q & A with Arne Klingenberg (Founder & CEO) 

Q: What is your mission?
A: World4Brains aims to make great consulting and smart innovation more accessible and affordable - with a super-fast turnaround.

Q: Who can use your services?
A: Any company, organization, even individuals, can access our fully automated platform - no matter where in the world they are or what time it is...

Q: How is World4Brains different from other companies?
A: With our system hundreds of very well-credentialed specialists in their fields are supported by the wisdom of the crowds, or what's nowadays called 'crowdsourcing' or open innovation. So it's like "smartsourcing meets crowdsourcing".

Q: So your expert consultants are competing with "regular" people?
A: They really are collaborating rather than competing because all are contributing new perspectives, ideas and solutions. This is possible thanks to our innovative compensation model.

Q: How does your model work?
A: First of all, it's our clients who decide how much they are willing and able to pay. And second, instead of the old-fashioned way which is a competition-based model, all of our consultants and innovators who contributed something valuable to a client's project will receive payment. So it's not any longer "one winner takes all" as is traditionally the case, and by the way, all internet-based outsourcing or crowdsourcing solutions still use the old-fashioned way which is 100% competition. We prefer collaboration and cooperation.

Q: Why did you start World4Brains.com?
A: There were a number of reasons: As an international and fully automated platform, it complements the consulting company I've been operating since 1995 in a number of ways. For example, it taps into so many streams of knowledge... instead of being restricted to limited local knowledge, World4Brains Clients will receive new perspectives spanning ALL countries and cultures. There are so many amazing new ideas and solutions out there... some problems we encounter may have been solved in another country years ago in ways we would never have considered!

Q: Any other reasons?
A: Yes; besides the mentioned geographical and cultural advantages, World4Brains opens up the world of consulting and innovation to a far wider spectrum of consultants than traditionally available. Besides currently active professionals, retired experts can preserve and pass on their accumulated wisdom, which is both timely and important since the first wave of baby boomers have started to retire, and so much knowledge is at risk of getting lost... the same is true for the downsized pros who take with them much more that just "working experience"!

Another aspect is that these days a great many smart people may want to make a bit of extra money, so it provides a great avenue for that. Or think about the hidden potential in the many resourceful homemakers, some perhaps on maternity leave, the shy but smart professors and students... they were all untapped sources - until now! And even if money is no longer a subject, one can keep contributing and have fun cooperating with great people on interesting and exciting projects, rather than being bored on the golf course, or looking for treasures on Ebay...

Q: World4Brains.com lets clients decide how much they are willing & able to pay to reach their project objectives - whether it's getting new ideas, advice, finding solutions, brainstorming partners etc. This is a very revolutionary concept in the consulting industry - to say the least... Are you not worried that this will have a negative influence on your earning capacity, especially since you are also running an international boutique consultancy? (See ArneKlingenberg.com)
A: Well, I see World4Brains as being very complementary and helpful in many ways, rather than being more competition or a new threat.

Q: How come?
A: One aspect of our new pricing and reward mechanism is that World4Brains Consultants gain access to a completely new type of clientele who previously would not even have thought about hiring a traditional consultant... like the many small business operators or organizations who are simply too "scared" to approach an established consultancy for cost reasons, both positive and negative perceptions, etc. Now they have an avenue to find new solutions and so on within their monetary comfort zone. And by perusing our consultants' rather impressive profiles and seeing the kind of expertise all available to them at their fingertips, instantly, it's just amazing!

Q: So rather than competition, it expands the overall consulting market by new clients?
A: Yes, it does. And not only by being able to address a new type of client, but also by being able to expand ones consulting operations internationally or to different regions and cities. As a World4Brains Consultant you'll get free exposure and direct access to our worldwide clients, you can "showcase" your expertise and gain great new opportunities, even negotiate direct deals.

Q: Sounds good! Are there any other benefits?
A: Yes! I can delegate or outsource parts of my regular consulting work to World4Brains.com if I'm too busy with more important or lucrative work. It allows me to add more value, get fresh input or access additional knowledge and perspectives. I can do full-spectrum interdisciplinary consulting by inviting all kinds of experts from many different expertise categories, as needed in a project, so I'm much more flexible. And I can easily and quickly expand my operations to new and more inclusive areas I would before never have considered... all with fixed costs as determined by me or our associates.

Q: Does World4Brains add more competition and pressure to traditional consultants?
A: Well, yes and no. World4Brains allows for true cooperation and collaboration between clients and ALL participating consultants, and yet, there is also an element of competition. In traditional consulting, clients choose only one consultant or company, so there, the competition happened before the allocation of a contract... in the quoting and talking phase.

Clients can then only hope to have made the right choice... and not having just picked the "smoothest talker"! But here they will receive advice from MANY consultants - at the same time, and 24/7! Consultants are motivated to cooperate and help finding better new solutions because with our system, ALL who gave the most valuable input will receive payment. It's not anymore "one winner takes all" as it traditionally happens with only one consultant getting the contract.

Q: But still there is quite some pressure to perform?
A: Yes, although not in the traditional sense. Here, consultants have absolutely no incentive to "hold back" with their advice or prolong a project because if they don't speak their mind right away, someone else might beat them to it... any yet, they also benefit from improving or adding to someones else' thoughts because all good contributions will get rewarded by our clients.

We really offer a new level-playing field for both consultants and clients so yes, it's a new game now. Consultants who excel with their sheer brilliance, but perhaps not with their presentation or sales skills, they will do very well at World4Brains.com because the beauty and genius of their ideas and solutions simply speaks for itself! And this also benefits our clients!

Q: You haven't answered a previous question re your earning capacities in your boutique consultancy... did you lower your rates?
A: No, I haven't lowered them at all. OK, they were not excessive for a start... Yes, World4Brains does establish fair international values up to a point. Yet some clients prefer face-to-face meetings with someone they got to know and trust, so they are happy to pay for the services we offer at ArneKlingenberg.com. And remember, by getting free exposure at World4Brains, and participating in projects plus having a great feedback score, that all helps to attract direct clients. Also, there is no need to invest in fancy suits or flashy offices, do expensive self-promotions or chase your money... and that entails significant savings on all sides.

Q: World4Brains entered public beta only in June; how is it going for you and what are your plans for the future?
A: Yes indeed, we are still a very young start-up and that is a lot of fun! So far we have focused on finding and inviting really top experts from various fields and we are both grateful and humbled by the great response we have received. Now stage two is the launching of our ongoing marketing campaign to clients, let them know that we exist and point out the 15 Advantages of World4Brains Clients. At the same time and as a matter of course, we keep building the system and add always new functions and features; it's a very exciting time!


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