So who ARE we anyhow?

Dave Thorpe, Director of Business Development and Director of Real Estate Services

Dave is responsible for developing strategic business opportunities in the Real Estate, Contract Management and Credit Union industry segments. Dave also has primary responsibility for DocuSign’s web subscription business and affiliate marketing programs.

Dave works with key partners like zipLogix and LPS Real Estate to develop integrated solutions with their forms and document management applications to provide streamlined solutions for Real Estate professionals. These integrations help agents eliminate time consuming activities associated with managing and transporting paper to obtain legally binding signatures.

With these integrations, agents save significant time and expense while electronic signatures make the signing process easier for their clients. Dave also works with a number of Associations on ways to provide members with entry level access to DocuSign as a member benefit.

Loren Alhadeff, Director of Sales

Loren Alhadeff manages DocuSign’s account executives to help them identify needs within organizations and demonstrate the impact electronic signature will have in addressing those needs. Drawing from past successes, Loren and his team help companies understand what future success may look like should they adopt DocuSign’s e-Signature solution.

Loren and his team help determine the level of commitment that will drive the highest level of success as well as set up new partners’ DocuSign subscriptions.

With real estate, Loren and his team help organizations, brokerages, and offices that support real estate professionals realize the role DocuSign can play to improve each professional’s business. When all agents in an office use DocuSign, everyone saves time and operational costs decrease. Additional benefits to adopting DocuSign electronic signature include:

• Secure delivery, receipt and storage of documents
• Improved customer experience due to responsive customer service and instant gratification
• Legally defensible e-sign process
• Environmentally friendly

An Bui, DocuSign Social Media

An signs her name on comments, blog posts, and other online activities as “An Bui, DocuSign Social Media” to be clear and transparent that she’s providing information about electronic signature due to her relationship with DocuSign. In addition to writing and moderating the DocuSign blog, An also tweets from @DocuSign, monitors the DocuSign Facebook page, responds to comments on blog posts about electronic signature, and participates on RealTown, ActiveRain, and Trulia.

DocuSign also hosts electronic signature videos on YouTube, participates on discussions on LinkedIn, posts e-sign whitepapers and other materials on Scribd, as well as posts presentations about esignature on Slideshare.

An listens to the online conversations and provides information that real estate professionals are looking for.

Common questions she provides information about may be:

• How-To [use DocuSign in a specific way]. Click for How-To videos
• Do you have any information about FHA and Lender Acceptance?
• Is DocuSign legal?

Come by the DocuSign Inman Real Estate Connect booth #905, across from the Inman News Booth, to meet Dave Thorpe, Loren Alhadeff, and An Bui to discuss electronic signature, real estate, and DocuSign’s special offer as the official and exclusive ESIGN provider under the REALTOR Benefits® program. We’re extending the offer for a limited time so that you can take advantage of the opportunities electronic signature provides for your business!

We’re looking forward to seeing you in New York!

With six scheduled demos, many more impromptu one-on-one demos, questions about “Designed for Mobile”, and forms compatibility, I’ve pulled together some thoughts to share:

1. How do I get DocuSign on my mobile phone?

DocuSign “Designed for Mobile” comes with your subscription to DocuSign – there are no apps to download! It works for Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and Google Android. With electronic signature “Designed for Mobile,” eSign is faster and easier for customers to complete transactions while on the go.

You and your clients can now view and e-sign documents on your handheld device and see a new status console optimized for mobile browsers.

2. Will DocuSign work with my forms?

We’ve partnered with many of the real estate forms providers, including zipLogix (zipForm® and WINForms®), Realfast (Realfast2Go™), IRES, Reveal Systems (TrueForms), LPS Real Estate Group which includes TransactionPoint and DocCentral – click here to learn more about our partners.

You can also DocuSign documents created in Adobe (PDF’s), MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint as well.

3. How do I get started with DocuSign and electronic signature?

You can sign up on the DocuSign web site. Once you’ve signed up, take a look at our subscriber resources:

• Sign up for a Live Interactive Training webinar for eSignature
• Browse our DocuSign Electronic Signature forums, which are online discussions of DocuSign features, how-to’s, product announcements and more.
• Watch our How-To videos, including “Sending and signing a Lead-Based Pain Disclosure using DocuSign”, “Sending from zipForm 6 and DocuSign”, “How to add another real estate agent as a carbon copy recipient” and more. Take a look to see if there’s a video that addresses your question!
• Read our blog and suggest post ideas in the comments

With a 30-Day Free Trial, you can experience the power of securely sending, signing and storing documents with DocuSign.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth at NAR – keep an eye on the blog for an exciting post-NAR announcement for those of you who stopped by!

Dave Thorpe, Director of Business Development and Director of Real Estate Services

Dave is responsible for developing strategic business opportunities in the Real Estate, Contract Management and Credit Union industry segments. Dave also has primary responsibility for DocuSign’s web subscription business and affiliate marketing programs.

Dave works with key partners like zipLogix and LPS Real Estate to develop integrated solutions with their froms and document management applications to provide streamlined solutions for Real Estate professionals. These integrations will help agents eliminate time consuming activities associated with managing and transporting paper to obtain legally binding signatures.

These integrations also save agents significant time and expense while making it easier for their clients. Dave is also working with a number of Associations on ways to provide members with entry level access to DocuSign as a member benefit.

Jim Custer, DocuSign Account Executive

Jim’s role at DocuSign is to identify needs within organizations and help demonstrate the impact e-signature will have in addressing those needs. Drawing from past successes, he can help a company understand what future success may look like for companies that come onboard with DocuSign.

Jim also helps determine the level of commitment that will drive the highest level of success as well as set up new partners’ DocuSign subscriptions.

With real estate, Jim helps organizations, brokerages, and offices that support real estate professionals realize the role DocuSign can play to improve each professional’s business. When all agents in an office use DocuSign, everyone saves time and operational costs decrease. Additional benefits include:

• Secure delivery, receipt and storage of documents
• Improved customer experience due to responsive customer service and instant gratification
• Legally defensible e-sign process, which Ken Moyle will be happy to discuss
• Environmentally friendly

An Bui, DocuSign Social Media

An signs her name on comments, blog posts, and other online activities as “An Bui, DocuSign Social Media” to be clear and transparent that she’s providing information about electronic signature because of her relationship with DocuSign. In addition to writing and moderating the DocuSign blog, An also tweets from @DocuSign, monitors the DocuSign Facebook page, responds to comments on blog posts about electronic signature, and participates on RealTown, ActiveRain, and Trulia.

DocuSign also hosts electronic signature videos on YouTube, participates on discussions on LinkedIn, posts e-sign whitepapers and other materials on Scribd, as well as posts presentations about esignature on Slideshare.

An listens to the online conversations and provides information that real estate professionals are looking for.

Common questions she provides information about may be:

• How-To [use DocuSign in a specific way]. Click for How-To videos
• Do you have any information about FHA and Lender Acceptance?
• Is DocuSign legal?

Of course, you can find out more about the legality of electronic signature in real estate if you attend Ken Moyle’s Tech Tuesday talk, tomorrow at CAR!

Come by the DocuSign CAR EXPO booth to meet Dave Thorpe, Suzanne Alberti, Jim Custer and An Bui and discuss electronic signature, real estate or just say hi!

We’re looking forward to seeing you at CAR!

Expedite Sales

By combining the strengths of DocuSign’s electronic signature service and DocCentral’s document management and sharing capabilities, contracts and other documents can now be executed, managed and shared via a secure Web environment. Busy professionals and their clients can efficiently complete files associated with buying and selling property, without being encumbered by faxes, regular mail and a myriad of paper documents.

“The overwhelming success of our individual products is a testament that real estate professionals, and the organizations that support them, are looking for ways to reduce paper while improving the security, workflow, and access to documents required for today’s real estate transactions, as well as those used for internal operations,” said Walt Clark, senior vice president of transaction and document management solutions with LPS Real Estate Group. “The integration of DocuSign and DocCentral will make it even easier to conduct real estate transactions while realizing the benefits of digital signatures and electronic document-sharing and retention.”

Improve Customer Service

Real estate transactions involve a lot of detailed paperwork and often have multiple signers who do not live or work near their agents and brokers. Signing in person or sending lengthy faxes back and forth is often inconvenient and time-consuming. By enabling online completion of agreements, all parties involved in the process can securely access documents at their convenience from any location via the Internet. DocuSign’s on-demand service is fast, easy to use, and dramatically improves the traditional signing process. To date, DocuSign has executed more than 37 million signature events and has more than 18,000 registered real estate professionals in the United States.

“DocuSign is the market leader for electronic signature – especially in real estate. Our award-winning product and support are ideally suited for real estate professionals,” said Tom Gonser, founder and vice president of product strategy at DocuSign. “It was natural for the two companies to partner and offer our market-leading products to real estate professionals, who can close deals faster while reducing costs, eliminating errors and providing better service to their clients.”

Cut Costs

DocCentral is a simple, intuitive and cost-effective tool that allows real estate professionals to digitize, organize and share their documents. Documents are stored on secure servers and accessible online 24/7 by agents and the other transaction participants they authorize. By taking transaction documentation off laptops and out of filing cabinets, DocCentral eliminates redundancy, safeguards information and provides an audit trail for today’s increasingly complex real estate transactions. With DocCentral’s offsite storage, courier costs are virtually eliminated while customer service is enhanced.

Real estate professionals who manage and organize their documents on DocCentral can now automate the entire contract lifecycle and secure signatures in a more simplified and streamlined process than the traditionally slow “print-ship-sign-copy-return-scan-fax” cycle. From within DocuSign, users can quickly send documents for signature via e-mail. Once the forms are electronically signed, they can be automatically stored in DocCentral, where they can be accessed by authorized parties. This paperless process saves time, cuts costs, expedites the sales process and improves customer service.