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About E-Signatures (Electronic Signatures)
“Our customers love EchoSign, and contracts come backsigned in minutes!”
— Brooke Watts, Senior Manager, Customer Advocacy, LinkedInThousands of leading corporations use electronicsignatures to get contracts signed faster and closemore business. While agreements have been“inked” electronically as far back as the dawn of the telegraph, the modern era was ushered inwhen Bill Clinton signed the Federal E-SIGN Actinto law on October 1, 2000. The E-SIGN Actmakes online electronic signatures in acommercial transaction equivalent to a writtensignature. Similar laws have been passed in everystate, as well as in the European Union.
You’ve Already Used an Electronic Signature
Shortly after the E-SIGN Act was signed in2000, e-signatures became predominant ina number of industries. If you’ve signed upfor a brokerage account with Schwab,Vanguard, eTrade, or anyone else, you’velikely used a digital signature. Over 50% of tax filers now sign with an electronicsignature. And almost 50% of the insuranceindustry uses e-signatures.Electronic signatures are everywhere now,and as Gartner noted in 2007, “the legalprecedent for e-signatures is a non-issue.”But until recently, adopting e-signatures in your own business was simply too complicated.
EchoSign: The Leader in Web 2.0 Signatures
EchoSign has become the leader of the second generation of e-signature solutions — “on demand”or 100% web-based, fully digital signature solutions. WithEchoSign, there’s nothing to learn or install. No IT department is required. Simply click “Send”. Fill out a basic webmailform with who needs to sign. Attach the file to be signed by electronic signature. And that’s it!We do the rest. We’ll track down the e-signatures automatically. Even get a faxsignatureinstead where you want a traditional signature. We can send automated reminders until theysign. And we automatically PDF and store signed copies of all your contracts at www.echosign.com or in Salesforce.com.
More Resources
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EchoSign E-Signature Backgrounder(PDF, 849 KB)
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Association of Corporate Counsel:“EchoSign is a Comprehensive Signature-AutomationSolution”(PDF, 1.4 MB)
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EchoSign Blog:Gartner: “The Legal Precedent for E-Signatures Is a Non-Issue” 
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Case Studies 
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CNN:Clinton signs e-signature bill into law 
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New York Times:E-Sinatures Become Valid for Business 
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