One More Reason to Use Electronic Signature & Electronic Contract Execution

What news do you want first? I’ll start with the other news, so we can end on a positive
note. 
Did you know…
DHL has discontinued U.S. domestic services. DHL, the overnight shipping service provider, no longer provides domestic-only air and ground services. Other overnight document shipping services have recently increased their rates, and there’s a rumor that USPS may reduce the number of service days. The average cost for overnight shipping, after surcharges, is roughly $54.00 based on sending from New York to Chicago depending on what carrier you use. What does this mean to you? You have fewer options when it comes to getting your contracts and agreements delivered. Yes, you can use the other shippers, who have increased their rates earlier this year. If you’re still shipping the same number of documents you’ve generally shipped, either your operational costs have likely increased or you’ve cut costs by using slower shipping services. Keeping operational costs needlessly high or slowing down your business processes which probably don’t align with your current business goals.

So now the good news

With DocuSign we’ve saved approximately 80% in overnight and express shipments.

–Ric Kimbell of Everest University Online

You have options. DocuSign’s electronic contract execution service, including tracking and electronic signature, takes your paper contract and agreement process online. By eliminating your need for costly courier services and depending on the size of your business, DocuSign could save you millions. We’ll make the savings easy and offer our electronic signature and online contract execution services at 20% of your 2008 express shipping charges.* If you take into account all of your costs associated with sending and managing contracts, your cost savings can be much greater than 80% of your shipping charges.

DocuSign allows you to address the 3 key factors to success in today’s business environment:

• Reduction of operational costs
• Closing more deals, faster
• Improvement in customer satisfaction and retention

DocuSign’s services also allow for integration with Salesforce along with greater control and tracking of your documents. With a free trial, you can try our services first. So while overnight parcel services are providing you with fewer, more expensive options, DocuSign is offering you another option that cuts your operational costs and accelerates your business. Doesn’t that sound like great news?

* Offer eligible for new DocuSign customers only
* 2008 shipping charges must be greater than $4000 to qualify
* Proof of 2008 shipping charges may be required

Finally, I have to admit we have not figured out how to send OBJECTS in a DocuSign envelope… but we do have this secret project underway that they won’t let me tell you about…

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