FedEx and UPS have increased their rates for 2009
Effective January 5, 2009 FedEx Express rates increased an average of 6.9% for U.S. and U.S. export services, FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery rates increased an average of 5.9%.
FedEx re-indexed its fuel surcharge on January 1, 2009, which may provide temporary rate relief. However, as the [...]

DocuSign’s January sales and marketing meeting started yesterday. This three day meeting covers what we plan to execute on in 2009. While we’re making plans for the future and celebrating our accomplishments from 2008, I wanted to share with you some of the posts about the more interesting happenings of last year.
Back in June, Jet [...]

As a founder of DocuSign, I keep my eyes (and ears!) open for articles about using DocuSign for contract execution. You can imagine the smile on my face when I saw the destinationCRM.com article by Brian Jemelian, an SVP at Yamaha Corp. of America, discussing how Yamaha cut down on its paper trail and customer [...]

First, the bad news: FedEx (NYSE: FDX) and UPS (NYSE: UPS) announced record rate increases which began January 5, 2009.
Now, the good news: DocuSign offers companies a simple way to slash recurring express shipping expenses and accelerate business. We’re continuing our “Beat Rate Increases”  program through March 31, 2009. Through this program, you can send [...]

Psst… tomorrow DocuSign will deploy release 41 of the leading Enterprise Contract Execution (ECE) platform, with some really powerful new features that further extends our lead in this market. This post is a sneak peek into some of the new capabilities, so don’t tell anyone.
Smart Envelopes – Enterprise customers with more complicated workflows can now [...]

As I mentioned in my post earlier this month on the high-cost of overnight shipping, the players in that market are in trouble. It hasn’t taken long for the impact of higher fuel prices to manifest itself at FedEx, the carrier most dependent on its overnight letter business.
When it costs $55 to send a contract [...]

 I am headed back from Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston where I was on a panel to discuss Enterprise 2.0 and its growth. I knew my perspective from DocuSign was going to be a little different than some of the mainstream “Enterprise 2.0″ thinking. I was not talking about FaceBook.com for the enterprise or social [...]

I don’t like paying $4 a gallon for gasoline – nobody does… But unless you are pilot you probably have not looked at the U.S. Spot price for Jet Fuel.  As of today, it sits at more than $4.00 per gallon for the US Gulf coast.
I am sure the execs at FedEx are looking! 
The reason [...]