Make Your Voice Heard – Share Which E-Signature Features YOU WANT

We want your feedback on what features you value most in our electronic signature service to improve our e-sign offering.

Please take this short survey (approximately 16 questions or 5-7 minutes to complete) and let us know what features you find valuable and what features you don’t. Your input is vital to us. Please forward to any other real estate professionals that may also have input!

Thanks so much for your help!


- Tom Gonser, Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, & the DocuSign Team

Brown paper packages, tied up with strings, these are a few of our favorite things… – Julie Andrews, The Sound of Music

When Julie Andrews sang about her favorite things in “The Sound of Music,” electronic signature and online contract execution technology did not exist. Now that it does, we love reading stories about how our subscribers (and our subscribers’ customers) love it. Recently, one of our DocuSign for real estate customers wrote about sending documents back and forth as part of a paperless, green strategy.

With all of the paperwork involved in real estate transactions, real estate professionals have had to send, fax or drive documents back and forth. This meant significant use of paper, ink, gas and time.

With DocuSign electronic signature  service, our subscribers have realized that going paperless can help them save significant time and operational costs. Because senders and signers only need email access and a web browser to move ahead with the transaction, it doesn’t matter where people are. They don’t need to be next to a fax machine, waiting for the fax to come through. They don’t need to spend their valuable time driving from one place to another to get the necessary signatures and initials. By minimizing driving, they’re using less gas, which is good for their wallets and the environment. Electronic signature on digital documents also preserves the quality of the information, so you don’t have to struggle to read a grainy fax.

ESignatures leading to time savings, NOW that is one of my favorite things!*

*bonus points for singing this line to the tune of “My Favorite Things”. Of course, electronic signature leads to time AND money savings, but the tune doesn’t match.

Dave is the Director of Business Development for DocuSign and looks forward to meeting new people and reconnecting with those he’s met at previous conferences, including mid-year NAR. Suzanne is the Real Estate Marketing Manager. She’s excited to build on her first Bar Camp experience, RE Bar Camp San Francisco, which takes place the day before Inman Connect.

The event kicks off with the “Beer for Bloggers” reception, from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Tuesday, August 4th.

Inman Connect Details:

When: August 5th – 7th, 2009

Time: 8:30 am – 6:00 / 7:00 pm (click for a more detailed agenda)

Where: Palace Hotel, San Francisco

Why: Connect with real estate industry’s leaders and get the latest in business intelligence and technology to help “rethink, reframe and recharge you business.”

More details can be found on the Inman web site.

Please stop by DocuSign booth (131), say hi to Dave and Suzanne, and share with them your thoughts about what you need to go paperless. Going paperless enables you to make more money and do deals faster, freeing you up to focus on what matters to you.

1. “Make it easy and familiar for my signer – I am trying to close a deal, not train them on technology or law.” – DocuSign is the only system that uses the familiar yellow ‘sign here’ and ‘initial here’ tabs. As part of our patented process, these signature indicators are really familiar and our ‘one-click’ signing makes it both legally binding and simple to use. (Some ESIGN tools have some really odd ways they want you to sign[2]).
2. “Give me downstream reliability” – It is important that the solution not make ‘stray marks’ in improper places. My signatures, initials, and data need to be exactly placed, without odd ‘borders’ or ‘seals’ appearing in strange places. Downstream these will always get kicked back.
3. “Help me handle complex transactions” – Often the Real Estate transaction has a number of forms to fill out, initial and sign. DocuSign’s system can automatically recognize your documents and apply templates so you get the benefit of exact signature placement without having to do all the work!
4. “Integrate into my forms software” – By integrating directly into the software Realtors use to create and manage forms, DocuSign makes sending for signature a ‘one click process’. Talk about saving time!
5. “Allow me to sequence my documents to specific roles” – such as buyer & seller, and allow me to easily follow the industry standard practice.

So, these key points make DocuSign the clear leader for the Real Estate market. These and many other reasons explain why so many Realtors blog about DocuSign, tell their customers about DocuSign, and why the word ‘DocuSign’ is being used as a verb for electronic signature and online contract execution! You’ve probably heard it at conferences – you know “Hold on, I need to get my buyer to DocuSign it so I can close this deal”. [1] The same ‘wire’ – the INTERNET, silly! [2] Like ‘mouse cursive’ – ever try signing your name with a mouse? It is just silly. Nobody can – everyone hates it. Amazing waste of time that shows lack of understanding of what signing really is.