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EchoSign Gets Customers to Say YES!
EchoSign e-signature is a creative way to help level the playing field … EchoSign cuts [contract] processing time to two days from three weeks.
— Wall Street Journal
BT (British Telecom) Teams Up with EchoSign
With BT eSignature, legally binding electronic signatures are instantly delivered in PDF format to both sender and recipient, the moment a contract is signed. To provide this service we’ve teamed up with EchoSign.
— BT Broadband Office
EchoSign Named to 2009 CRM WizKids
EchoSign has won a CRM WizKids award -- a list of front-office software firms that exemplify positive market trends.
EchoSign Named to Red Herring 100
EchoSign has been named by Red Herring as one of the leading private technology companies in North America.
— Red Herring
JMP Securities: EchoSign Named to Hot 100 for 2008 & 2009
JMP Securities has named EchoSign to “The Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies.
— May 2009 & April 2008
Salesforce.com Names EchoSign to Best Applications of 2008
EchoSign for Salesforce picks up where Salesforce leaves off — when you actually need to get that customer contract signed.
— Force.com AppExchange
One of the Most Innovative Sales Tools
We’ve followed EchoSign closely since its emergence as one of the most innovative sales tools and Office 2.0 offerings. Like WebEx, EchoSign is truly changing the way business is done.
— Shankar Iyer, Vice President, WebEx Connect
EchoSign Solves Signature Page Woes
EchoSign definitely fixes a big problem for companies trying to keep executed agreements and other documents organized.
— TechCrunch
BT Closes the Deal with EchoSign
BT was already well under average in the time it took to get contracts signed — around 48 hours — but has taken that down to 42 minutes using EchoSign. ‘We have knocked two days of briefcase time off the process of faxing back and forth,’ Lindsay said. ‘When you are doing 25,000 contracts a month that really adds up and affects your cash flow. The quicker the contract is signed, the quicker we can rate the bill and the quicker we can collect the cash.’
— Phone Plus, 8/09
EchoSign Provides E-Signing to Take Out Last Analog Vestige in Business Processes
The electronic signature feature allows you to complete a sale or other business transaction without a physical object that you need to fax, mail, or otherwise exchange. This greatly simplifies these transactions for both parties.
— The App Gap, 8/09
Sign on the Dotted Internet Line Thanks to EchoSign
What do contracts and the Internet have in common? It’s virtually impossible today to do business without them. Online business contacts directory Jigsaw Data Corp, the San Mateo-based ‘wikipedia of business cards’, has experienced a marked rise in efficiency since it’s 25 per sales operations adopted EchoSign’s service in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to its CEO Garth Moulton. ‘It’s a dream,’ Moulton said. ‘What used to take five to six days to complete the contract process has been reduced to five to six hours.’
— Silicon Valley Business Journal, 4/09
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Web 2.0 Works to Solve Problems
I spoke with an EchoSign customer, Angela O’Grady, the COO of Preferred Offices, a ‘hotel for businesses’ in the Washington D.C. area that rents offices, meeting rooms, and other business location services. ‘We started with EchoSign after a client sent our contract back to us with the service,’ said O’Grady.
In two years, O’Grady said they’ve used EchoSign for 441 documents, plus another 100 or so their customers printed, signed on paper, and returned. Clients don’t have to pay anything to receive a document, just like YouSendIt doesn’t charge the recipients of files.
‘We’re selling the latest and greatest technology and bandwidth,’ said O’Grady, ‘and this is another nuance of how we provide state of the art service for our clients.’ Being high-tech, and using EchoSign’s management tools, they now know their average document signing time is 114 minutes. That certainly beats the days it used to take to get contract paperwork modified and signed.
— New York Times, 3/09
Tools and Services Make Tax Time a Little Less Painful
If your business has dealings with consultants, sole proprietors, partnerships or S-corporations, you know that wrangling W-9 forms from all of them is akin to herding cats. But you need a completed, signed W-9 (officially called a W-9 Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification Form) to report payments of $600 or more to those non-employees. EchoSign can help. This online electronic signature service will let you send W-9 forms to your contacts via e-mail. Just visit the company’s W-9 page and enter the e-mail addresses of those you need W-9s from. EchoSign will send them the form, instruct them to print it, fill it in and fax it back to EchoSign. The company will then send the electronic W-9 to both parties electronically. No mail, no hassle.
— Small Business Computing, 03/23/2009
Startup of the Week: EchoSign
EchoSign makes ideal use of the software-as-a-service model to streamline the final stages of a sales deal. The tracking application adds value by giving salespeople and managers an easy way to stay on top of the status of deals.
— InformationWeek, 1/19/09
An E-Sign of the Times
A 2000 law gave digital signatures the same legal weight as those made with ink on paper, and Jason Lemkin is predicting that 2009 will be the year that electronic signatures and e-contracts become boring ‘in a good way.’ The service can be an important tool for sales because ‘the more friction you take out of the sales process, the better chance you have of closing the deal.’
— washingtonpost.com, 1/16/09
Synching Into a Cloud
Back in 2005, EchoSign, an electronic signature service provider, didn’t call it cloud computing. Then, it was Web 2.0. Nowadays, however, “we call it the cloud,” explained CEO Jason Lemkin. Its customers are generating sales leads in the cloud, and they want to close their deals in the cloud, he said. EchoSign’s proposition allows companies to cut the amount of time between a prospective sale and a signed contract. Its customers include Alltel Wireless, Qualcomm and British Telecom – companies that do high volumes of contracts every month. Lemkin defines the cloud as services provided entirely over the Internet, so no local software is needed. About 6% of its contracts are closed on a smartphone, which makes sense because so many customers are on the go and not sitting in front of a PC all day.
— Wireless Week, 1/1/09
eSignatures Get Sassy
BT’s SMB division uses the EchoSign solution internally for signing service contracts of 500 pounds and above, which represents tens of thousands of contracts per month, said Chris Lindsay, general manager of business applications for BT. ‘We’ve definitely noticed a speeding up of getting business closed,’ he said. ‘Our book-to-bill time has come down significantly, from about 48 hours previously to within 42 minutes.’
— Telephony Online, 12/23/08
Sign Here, Click Send
As adoption of electronic signatures continues to grow, Gregg Kreizman [Gartner Research] notes that EchoSign’s subscription-based pricing structure has certainly pushed the trend in the right direction with a more attractive offering. Pricing for EchoSign begins at a monthly rate of $12.95 for the Pro edition, $99 for Team, and $299 for Enterprise. Kreizman continues to encourage the adoption of electronic signatures as a favorable mechanism for optimizing the sales cycle. “There are very few signature oriented processes that can’t move online,” he says.
— destinationCRM, 11/21/08
The 2008 Elite
The process of signing contracts used to take more than a week for Qualcomm. With EchoSign, a simple concept led to big results.
— CRM, 8/20/08
EchoSign Boosts Your Company’s ROI
EchoSign helps sales reps close deals faster by providing the means to sign documents electronically. Once a salesperson is ready to close a deal, you don’t want the contract-signing process to take too long and risk the customer having a change of heart.
— Inside CRM, 7/16/08
EchoSign Customer Base Grows 40% in Q1
EchoSign grew its customer base 40% in the first quarter of 2008 ... and closed new strategic customers including industry leaders such as Dun & Bradstreet Canada, Eloqua, Facebook, Lennar, and Cianbro.
— Forbes.com, 4/29/08
EchoSign: Simple, Fast, and Efficient
One of the slowest parts of doing business is the obligatory forms one must fill out once an agreement is reached. With EchoSign, it’s simple, fast, efficient and feature rich.
— New York Times Small Business Summit Center, 2/17/08
E-Signing Tools: Can I Get Your John Hancock on That?
Stop losing time and boost your reps’ performance with EchoSign.
— MANAGEsmarter, 2/15/08
EchoSign 3.0 Arrives
EchoSign has blanketed the market. It delivers true enterprise class service features for its one click electronic document signing and delivery service.
— ZDNet, 2/13/08
Kudos to EchoSign
Kudos to EchoSign with Over 60 Customers on AppExchange! Customers including Cartelligent, Intacct and LinkedIn use EchoSign for Salesforce to automatically sign, track and file company contracts.
— Salesforce.com, 2/1/08
More than Sixty Salesforce.com Customers Successfully Deploy EchoSign for On-Demand e-Signatures and Contract Management Via the AppExchange
With EchoSign for Salesforce, an organization's contracts are automatically signed, tracked and filed in Salesforce, dramatically improving sales performance and visibility for sales management, legal and finance.
— CNNMoney.com, 1/23/2008
A Comprehensive Solution
EchoSign is a comprehensive signature automation solution … What is particularly interesting in the tracking and filing component. EchoSign makes sure you can easily find a signed copy later.
— Association of Corporate Counsel Docket, 12/10/07
Are You Ready to Get Your Deals Signed Quicker?
In many segments of today’s hyper competitive market, people expect something they can sign within 2 business days. Whether your printer broke, your team admin is on vacation or you missed the FedEx truck is irrelevant — if you can’t deliver, you lose. It’s often that simple. With EchoSign, contracts [are] signed in an hour or less! Just power up your laptop and you’ll have the deal wrapped up and your competion locked out in no time.
— SalesTeamTools, 12/3/2007
I’ll Stick With EchoSign
Digital signing of contracts is a very interesting space with only a handful of companies in it. I’ve used EchoSign numerous times with excellent results … (as compared to the competition), I’ll stick with EchoSign.
— Solution Watch, 10/8/07
Signing is Simpler — And More User Friendly
Today, small companies such as EchoSign Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., have launched Internet-based technology that makes signing contracts on a computer simpler and more user-friendly, often involving fewer clicks than buying a book or a pair of pants online.
— Wall Street Journal, 7/3/2007
Web-Based Service Allows Instant Electronic Signatures of On-Line Forms
For the first time, companies can post forms to their websites which can be reviewed and electronically signed in seconds. Employment applications, W9 or W4 forms, credit authorizations, terms and conditions, NDAs — anything — can now be signed on a website or portal without a single line of code.
— Web Services Magazine, 05/08/2007
Seamlessly Integrates With Salesforce
What do you do when you need to sign or authorize a piece of content, like a sales order, purchasing agreement or contract? Built on the Apex platform and seamlessly integrated within Salesforce, EchoSign allows users to send documents out for signatures, track status and file executed agreements with another contact or account. Best of all, anyone can sign documents electronically or via fax without having to download special software or even register with the service.
— Salesforce.com ADN, 05/01/2007
One of the Best
EchoSign offers both electronic and analog signature services for contracts, purchase orders, insertion orders, and more … One of the best startups
— Sun Microsystems SDNtv, 01/24/07
Easily Obtain Signatures on Documents
The whole world does business through e-mail and attachments. Why not take the pain out of dealing with physical documents and digitize the process?
— InformationWeek, 11/20/2006
Works Flawlessly
With @Road's operations running around the clock, the service has allowed signing of documents in minutes instead of days. EchoSign has worked flawlessly.
— Computerworld, 10/10/2006
EchoSign Wins “Best Of Show” at Office 2.0 Conference
Keep It Simple, Stupid! No online service demonstrates this KISS principle better than EchoSign today. [Simply] the most efficient way of getting a contract signed, tracked and filed. This is what Office 2.0 is all about!
— IT|Redux, 10/01/2006 and Office20con.com
Solving an Unsolved Problem
…a solution to an untapped office problem that isn't online yet: document management and verification. The company manages digital signatures over the Web for human resources departments, stock option documents and sales contracts.
— Forbes.com, 08/21/2006
EchoSign Wins the IBD Network’s “Judges’ Choice”
for Best Office 2.0 Application
EchoSign solves a long term problem of handling, tracking and storing company documents that have to get signed and then manages them once they are signed. It also goes a step further than the standard eFax® service by automating the process of emailing a copy of the signed document out to all the parties that need it.
— Under The Radar, 08/16/2006
Fills a Real Pain Point
EchoSign fills a real pain point for business and individuals that are trying to juggle obtaining signatures on multiple contracts.
— Alison Murdock, President, IBDNetwork 8/16/06
Ideal Way to Manage the Flow
[EchoSign] is ideal for the day-to-day flow of documents that need signing.
— ZDNet, 08/15/06
Instantly Track it All
EchoSign automates the process of tracking signatures and managing documents in an easy-to-use, affordable web-based solution. Users can instantly track what’s been signed, when and by whom.
— HR.com, 08/14/06
A Really Smart Move
EchoSign is the easiest tool you could possibly find to get a document signed. It’s a really smart move.
— IT|Redux, 08/08/2006
The First E-Signatures Actually Easier than Paper
For several years now, electronic signature laws have permitted the use of electronic signatures, but the adoption of electronic signatures has not occurred because [until EchoSign], no one bothered to make it easier than using paper. EchoSign’s service may finally help usher in the revolution.
— TechnoLawyer, 07/26/06
Close Customer Contracts Instantly
Need an agreement to be signed by your customer? Simply send it through EchoSign, your customers can then print, sign, fax, and voila — a PDF copy is e-mailed to all to whom it may concern.
— NEOBinaries, 07/20/2006
As Easy as Sending Out E-mail
Getting an agreement signed through EchoSign is as easy as sending out an e-mail. Users simply send an agreement that needs to be signed through EchoSign.com. That's it. Upon receiving the [signed documents], EchoSign automatically e-mails signed copies of the agreement to all parties by a PDF.
— KVBC TV, 07/04/2006
Instantly Sign any Document
EchoSign has quickly taken off as a way to instantly eliminate the headaches and environmental impacts of paperwork. With just a web browser, two or more people anywhere in the world can instantly sign any document at any time.
— TMC Net, 06/29/2006
Reduces Headaches
EchoSign is a great new service that will save a lot of time if you need to get signatures on documents . . . it’s SSL secured, and pages encrypted and unalterable. EchoSign can really reduce some of the headaches if you have lots of signed documents — and you can’t beat the price.
— VerusNova, 05/31/2006
Super Simple
While we were midway through a skype call, they fired me the NDA through the online echosign service. I reviewed it, was happy, so gave my electronic agreement in echosign, and its done! No faxing (although it will fax or allow you to fax in if required), just a super simple way of confirming agreement[s] between companies online.
— Decisive Flow, 05/26/2006
The Right Tool for the Task
Does your business struggle to keep track of signed agreements, invoices, approvals and contracts? . . . Send copies to anyone you've designated: your assistant, the sales team, HR or anyone else involved in the process. EchoSign also stores a copy of each document in your account for archiving.
— Small Business Computing, 05/18/2006
Safe and Secure
As simple to use as electronic mail . . . EchoSign works with Word, Excel….even WordPerfect … all kept safe so your documents will not be accessible by anybody.
— GenBeta, 05/04/2006
Secure and Unalterable
EchoSign - A website for sending, signing, tracking and storing documents on the internet. Your signed documents are secure, unalterable, and no one sees them unless you want them to.
— eHub, 04/27/2006
Cross Platform Functionality
EchoSign you email someone a PDF that needs a signature. They print and sign it, then fax it to an EchoSign fax number. EchoSign then emails a signed PDF to all designated recipients. Lots of security, lots of cross platform functionality. Pretty cool. It's a free service at the level where they store your 20 most recently sent documents. More features and storage at higher price points.
— The Social Software Weblog, 04/27/2006
Helps Businesses Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley
EchoSign helps businesses comply with Sarbanes- Oxley and other federal regulations by providing third party verification of when documents are delivered, when they are signed, and who has received copies.
— Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, 04/25/2006
Dramatically Reduces Costs
EchoSign dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of managing signed documents and contracts for small, medium and large businesses. There is no software to install, no training required, and there are no new systems to learn.
— ALTA (American Land Title Association), 03/22/2006
Instant Access from Anywhere
With EchoSign, users have instant access from anywhere to all of their agreements as well as their status — which documents are still out for signature; which ones have been signed; and which ones haven't. EchoSign both automatically tracks down written fax signatures, and also has an optional e-signature feature that makes it even easier to sign documents from any location.
— Web 2.0 Journal, 03/22/2006
Continually Check Document Status
EchoSign has launched a Web 2.0 document management system that automates signing, tracking and archiving of agreements and contracts ... The service works with any computer and email system, turning documents into PDFs in transit, and then archives the files. Functions include alerts, documents sharing, and signature status. The agreement section can support 1,000 100-page documents withouth latency, allowing users to continually view and check document status without continually refreshing web pages.
— IT News, 03/22/2006
First Web 2.0 Document Tracking and Management Service
Leverages innovative internet technologies to enable easy and efficient signing, tracking, archiving and sharing of documents.
Works with Any Computer
The service works with any computer and e-mail system, turning documents into PDFs in transit, and then archives the files. Functions include alerts, documents sharing, and signature status.
— TechWeb, 03/21/2006
EchoSign Makes Sure it Gets Signed
Users email out terms of sale or other paperwork through EchoSign, and EchoSign automatically makes sure it gets signed (by fax or e-signature), and that copies are sent to all parties. It also stores a copy of the document ... It might be as simple as agreeing to a standard refund / satisfaction policy in the case of jewelry; or in the case of merchants who use eBay as an extension of an existing online store, a way to get them to agree to the T&Cs they would have agreed to if they'd purchased directly via the online store rather than eBay.
— AuctionBytes, 03/19/2006
Legally Binding
www.echosign.com: A new Web service that facilitates the signing of legally binding contracts. You can send a contract as an e-mail, which arrives with a bar-coded cover sheet. After printing and signing it, the recipient faxes the contract back to a toll-free number. All documents faxed to that number are permanently stored with status information, telling you, for example, which ones are still awaiting signatures. Storage is free up to 20 documents.
— IT Business, 03/15/2006
Making the Contract Signature Process Electronic
I work with a lot of contracts in my business, so I am especially intrigued by EchoSign. Essentially EchoSign seeks to make the contract signature process electronic, getting rid of multiple paper versions of contract.
— Pactum, 01/24/2006
It's a Personal Quest of Mine . . .
It's a personal quest of mine to eventually run a true paperless office, so so I'm constantly looking for services to move in that direction. One of the largest obstacles in doing so would be to circumnavigate the need for signed documents, which would be impossible (unfortunately) in today's litigious world. EchoSign solves the problem by allowing you to send documents, have the end-party sign it, and then fax it back to an account which saves the signed document as a PDF file for archiving. Both parties receive a copy of the signed PDF. You never have to deal with a single piece of paper. Sending a test agreement took about 2 minutes total, half of which was spent filling out the registration form, and the best part is that it's free . . .
— API Talk, 01/19/2006
Enabling the Paperless Society
[Translated from Japanese] Since the time when the PC first became popular, the idea of actualizing the paperless society has often been discussed, but has not become a reality. The problem with the digitization of documents is that the management of the documents is often analog. EchoSign makes it all digital. EchoSign makes it simple to exchange and digitize documents via fax, and makes it possible to avoid the problems associated with fax exchange of documents. All your various documents are now digitized, making document management work.
— 100Shiki, 01/13/2006
Sign Here Please …
For most people, the task of creating and negotiating contracts was transformed some ten years ago, when email ‘tipped’ and became the preferred mode of business communication. Drafts are prepared in Word, then emailed back and forth. Most of the time, changes are marked up (although sometimes not, but that's another story), and eventually a final version emerges, ready to sign.
It's at this point that things go decidedly low-tech. Despite much e-signature talk and buzz over the years, the task of signing contracts still seems to happen with pen, paper, fedex and fax.
But where do you look when, 6 months down the road, a dispute is looming, and you want to check the final terms of the contract you signed? Do you trust the last electronic copy buried deep in your email archives, or do you go rummaging around for the signed piece of paper? …
All you do is browse to EchoSign, upload your final contract, tell it who needs to sign, and the contract is emailed to all relevant parties. They print, sign, and fax it back to your EchoSign number, and the final signed versions are stored as PDFs for future reference. Easy.
— Strategize, 01/03/2006
EchoSign Goes Further
Efax® helps somewhat [with document management] and I often ask people to send docs to my efax number so that I have an electronic copy. But EchoSign, besides being free, goes further. Once a document is finalized, you simply upload it to the site and use their interface to email it out to everyone. The emailed document includes a fax cover sheet with the fax number pre-filled. The other side simply prints it, signs it, and sends it to the fax number on the pre-printed form. The original party then receives a pdf version of the signed document for filing, printing and/or forwarding.
— TechCrunch, 01/02/2006