Using Electronic Signature To Accelerate Time to Revenue

The Wall St Journal recently ran an article about freelancers, consultants, contractors and other independent workers and the challenges they face collecting payment for their services. The industry leading eSignature provider, DocuSign, provides an electronic signature solution for individual professionals that can help them close deals with clients more quickly as well as accelerate the time to revenue.

From the Wall Street Journal:

For New York business consultant Christopher Santini, the pursuit for payment from one client has practically become a second job. Last May, a small business he consulted for went through a merger, and the new company fell behind on payments to him. Now, Mr. Santini, who's been a freelance consultant since 2008, says he is owed about $35,000, which would have accounted for almost 40% of his annual income last year.

"I started to get the standard run around," says Mr. Santini. "The secretary would tell me the person I needed to speak to was out. Finally [they] started to ignore me and not return emails or calls."

Mr. Santini says he has spent 80 hours calling and emailing company officials.

If Mr. Santini were to use DocuSign to manage his client contracts and invoices, he could have asked his clients for the names and emails for whom to send paperwork to and send them the paperwork directly.

DocuSign for Individual Professionals can help them close deals faster and accelerate time to revenue.

With DocuSign's electronic signature services, you'll have the ability:

• To see when your invoices were opened with the audit trail
• To ask for a signature to acknowledge receipt and
• To set up your invoices to automatically forward to payroll or finance once your engagement sponsor has signed off the invoice

DocuSign also has a function that enables you to set auto-reminders so that you'll spend less time following up as a bill collector and more time concentrating on providing your clients with service or building your business. With DocuSign's API, you also have the option to integrate DocuSign into your existing CRM system.

DocuSign's electronic signature services can save you time - as a freelancer, independent consultant, contractor or otherwise independent worker, you know your time is valuable. Don't spend it trying to get paid for your work. Use DocuSign to close more deals and speed your time to revenue! Click here to try DocuSign Electronic Signature for Individual Professionals, free for 30 days!