Electronic signature is a key technology for a paperless office. A real estate agent in Decatur, Georgia noticed that they seemed to have more documents for signature for any given transaction. Each transaction can easily have over 100 pages or more, including listing agreements, disclosures, purchase and sale agreements, counter offers and amendments.
Imagine if [...]

Electronic signatures and other online tools can help build relationships, which is important in a relationship-based business like real estate. Nick Bastian, one of our power users, recently posted a blog post about how DocuSign is so great for his real estate business as well as how social networking, such as updates on Twitter, has [...]

With both “wet” and electronic signature, authentication processes assures that the person who signed your contract is the person he or she claims to be. How important is authentication in your paper contracts and how important should it be in your electronic contracts? Learn about what your authentication options can do for you and your business in this series on [...]

Integrating your electronic signature and online contract execution solution with your existing forms software, like Zipform 6, can make your life A LOT easier, especially if you also use templates!
So how do we send a document with Zipform 6 using the templates feature?
In Zipform 6:

Click on file and choose “E-Signature”
In the “E-Signature” selection window, select your [...]

Part of the beauty of using electronic signature and online contract execution is that once your clients have all signed, you can send the completed documents to the other agent using “CC” aka carbon copy.
Here’s an example of when you might want to use “CC”:
You want to submit a counter-offer via DocuSign. If you “CC” [...]

One of the reasons I enjoy my role as an Electronic Signature and Electronic Contract Execution evangelist is DocuSign’s users come up with some interesting questions! I’ve included some recent questions about DocuSign’s signing process, document retrieval after completion of the electronic contract execution process, and “problems with one or more signatures.”
Enjoy the questions and [...]

An Bui, who evangelizes electronic signature and electronic contract execution for DocuSign, has observed Fall Pre-Leasing in her neighborhood.
What is Fall Pre-Leasing?
Fall Pre-Leasing is the process by which students heading to school in the fall determine their fall semester housing. The typical steps of a pre-lease include:

Contact and develop a relationship with your leasing agent
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Are college-bound and grad school-bound students thinking about using an electronic signature and online contract execution service? Maybe they should be.
According to American Student Assistance, The College Board, and National Center for Education Statistics:

In each year between 2000 – 01 and 2006 – 07, an estimated 60% of bachelor’s degree recipients borrowed to fund their education.
Average [...]

We live very challenging times. CRM magazine recently published an interesting article by Lauren McKay called ‘Spend your way out!’ with a very interesting chart, reproduced below:
Source: CRM magazine
This visualization describes the level of risk associated with various types of projects, depending on the state of the economy. Essentially it defines what is important to [...]

Analyst firms such as IDC are now talking about what we’ve been seeing for a while - the economy is terrible, but for SaaS companies in dominant positions in their markets, things are actually REALLY GOOD.
A recent IDC report revised its market size projections, as stated in ZDNet’s Phil Wainwright’s January 30th, 2009 blog post: [...]