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Anchorage Daily News: "Almost 80% of Alaskans Pick Electronic Signatures"January 4

One factor we've found that determines how interested an organization is to moving to electronic signatures is proximity to the signers. 

Where business is typically done face-to-face, an electronic signature may still be of interest as a way to automate back-end business processes -- but it rarely helps accelerate closing the deal when the parties are already together. 

Conversely, we've found that for our HR customers, for example, the tipping point for using e-signatures is typically once a company is large enough to have multiple offices.  Walking that handbook acknowledgment around the office becomes a lot more challenging when everyone isn't together.  Similarly, sales processes that occur remotely, over the internet or over the phone, benefit dramatically from e-signatures.

On that note, it should be no surprise that in one of our country's least densely populated states, e-signature adoption should be sky-high.  The Anchorage Daily News is reporting that electronic signature take up for Permanent Fund checks has been dramatic:

"Division Director Deborah Bitney was particularly pleased that so many Alaskans -- almost 80 percent -- wer

Happy Holidays and The Year in ReviewDecember 24 2008

As we close out 2008, we want to say a big thank you to our now almost600,000 users and over 9,000 customers worldwide.

We truly appreciate your support, feedback, and input -- and please keep it coming.

So what of 2008, and 2009 to be?

We predict with some confidence that 2009 will be the year that electronic signatures and e-contracting get boring -- in a good way.  By that, we mean 2009 will be the year electronic contracts and signatures finally catch up to where shopping carts and e-commerce technology were in 1999 and become simply a standard, accepted, mainstream way of closing deals. 

Why?  Here's what we've seen since 2005:

2006 was about small businesses, Techcrunch followers, and early adopters seeing the immediate value in adopting a 100% web-based signature process.

2007 was about evolving, improving, and expanding EchoSign so that it met the needs of enterprises of every size.  So that almost every business could benefit from e-signature and e-contracting technology.

2008 was the year we grew our base.  We closed another 20 of the Fortune 500 and th

Telephony Magazine: "E-Signatures get SaaSy with EchoSign"December 23 2008

The January 2009 issue of Telephony magazine has a great profile of EchoSign and our success with global telecom powerhouse British Telecom (BT).  The online version is here and we're also profiled in the January print edition of "The Best and Worst of 2008". 

BT noted that they'd shaved 2 days off their book-to-bill process for tens of thousands of contracts a month using EchoSign.  That's simply a huge ROI:

"When it comes to electronic signatures, the biggest innovation isn't in the technology — which has been around for years — but in finding a way to use them.

Credit, then, BT's small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) division not only for figuring out how to use a Web-based electronic signature solution to speed up how it closes deals with customers, but for starting to market the same solution as a software as a service (SaaS).

The solution, from vendor EchoSign, takes much of the complexity out of e-signatures — which typically require users to install software behind a firewall, deal with certificate issuers and more — and turns them into an on-demand, W

EchoSign Comes to IrelandDecember 17 2008

We're pleased to have exapnded our worldwide fax-back options to now include Ireland.  This follows local fax-back options for U.K., France, Belgium, India, South Africa, and Australia, among others.

EchoSign is the only leading electronic signature service that also lets your signers sign by fax if they prefer.  Because sometimes, the best way to go all digital in your contracting process is to not shut off the analog option.

 

E-sign, fax-sign, mobile sign.  Whatever it takes to get that deal signed -- we've got your back.

Walk to Obama's Inauguration with EchoSignDecember 5 2008

According to the New York Times, at least 1.5 million people are expected to come to the Capitol to attend Barack Obama's swearing-in.  Contrast that with the estimated 100,000 that showed up in 2005.  The entire D.C. mall is being opened up for the festivities.

We were pleased to see EchoSign is playing a small role.  As you may have also read, hotel rooms are long since booked, and the spill-over is desperately looking to rent homes and apartments.  Some have rented out for almost $100,000 for the inauguration week, the Times reported.

But we noticed EchoSign is helping with a number of relative bargains on sites like Craigslist.  This listing (may expire) for example seems like a relative bargain at only $2000 per night, and you can sign it right now via EchoSign.

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- 10 minute walk to the swearing in site at the Capitol Building, Library of Congress, Supreme Court or the parade route along Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.

-12 minute walk to Union Station: red line metro (to Dupont Circle, Adams Morgan, National Zoo), shopping, bars, restaurants, Amtrak station, regional rail to Baltimore, 24 hour taxi stand

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