Author and IT industry analyst Michael Sampson writes on his “Being Effective with Collaboration” blog that the “days of retaining a fax machine just for signing contracts are over.”
The reason is that his publisher is using DocuSign to obtain signatures on contracts – rather than antiquated, outmoded technologies like faxes. It’s worth noting that Michael [...]

eWeek, the leading IT journal, recently posted an item detailing 20 steps for improving printer security. As the author M. David Stone notes:
Printers can compromise your information with hard disks that hold on to data after printing or scanning, fax features that can send to anyone and documents left sitting in output bins for anyone [...]

“Once in a while you can get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.”
– The Grateful Dead
OK, so maybe I’m harkening back to my college days, but this quote does ring home for me. As we all know, it’s quite common for engineers or programmers to [...]

 In a recent post I talked about our Executive Customer Council (ECC) meetings in Seattle that occurred in early October. During those meetings customers presented electronic signature best practices — the most effective ways to implement and benefit from electronic signatures — to the entire audience. The audience was comprised of the ECC as well [...]

Channel and dealer agreements and paperwork are iterative, lengthy, and arduous. And that’s on a good day. It gets even more interesting when multiple parties are involved.  Yet for companies whose businesses are dependent on channels, dealers and retailers, these agreements are absolutely critical to doing business.
A manufacturer has hundreds or thousands of dealers across [...]

Recently we invited a group of our most influential customers to become members of DocuSign’s Executive Customer Council (ECC). The ECC is our top customer advisory group. They have a pivotal role advising us on our product roadmap and product strategy. We want to make sure that the new products and services we are considering [...]

Over the last 20 years that I’ve been a private pilot, I have had the opportunity fly on 3 continents.  I’ve flown across the Bering Sea to Russia, down through the Caribbean Islands to the interior of Venezuela and back up Central America returning to Seattle.  This gave me more than a passing familiarity with [...]

These are very exciting times at DocuSign and I’m very proud of our entire team. DocuSign is on a rapid growth path and it’s exciting to see the demand for our eSignature service accelerate rapidly.   We recently celebrated our 5 millionth signature event! During 2005 and 2006 combined we were at 1.2 million signature events. [...]

One of the hardest things to do in business is to convert more leads into sales.  You’ve spent all that money on sales and marketing programs and you’ve got lots of leads flowing into the sales funnel.  But how many of those leads really turn into actual paying customers?  What is your sales close rate? [...]

 If you’re a regular reader of the DocuSign blog (and who isn’t these days), you’ll know that one of our themes is how fax machines are, needless to say, problematic when it comes to securely and reliably getting signatures on documents.  As anyone in the financial services industry will tell you, the third or fourth [...]