Mid-month eSign Check-in

We’re midway through the month – the holidays are upon us, the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl will kickoff soon! So while the weather’s getting cold, what topics are hot? iPad or iPhone apps, closing a round of funding, and Dreamforce have kept us busy!

Using DocuSign on your iPad can help you e-sign documents during this holiday season! You may not want to boot up your laptop but you need to sign documents. What do you do? Use DocuSign’s iPad app to get your documents signed! You can also download this eSign app for your iPhone!

Fastest Growing Electronic Signature Solutions Company Expands its Leadership in Cloud Services
DocuSign® (www.docusign.com) announced today it has closed $27 million in Series C financing. The investment was led by Scale Venture Partners with continued participation from prior investors—Sigma Partners, Ignition Partners, Frazier Technology Ventures and salesforce.com.

There is an App for It!
Panelists discussed how the AppExchange is the innovation hotbed for the latest sales productivity tools, with more than 1,000 pre-integrated apps, of which 300 apps were for sales. Attendees learned about this Sales 2.0 ecosystem and how customers have quickly added AppExchange apps to increase productivity and improve the top line.

Expanding Your Reach: How to Build a Killer Listing on the AppExchange
5 Steps for Listing Success:

Keep it simple: communicate a clear value proposition, optimize your listing for search and make pricing transparentShow ‘em what you got: use screenshots, demos and resources as well as cross sell other listings.Incorporate a customer voice: ask your users to provide reviews.Make your listing more “you”: add your customized banner to incorporate your branding and promo buttons to drive current promotions.Be responsive: follow up with leads and user reviews.

Building the Case for Electronic Signature-as-a-Service
Best practices to deploy electronic signature, as shared by Nucleus Research’s Rebecca Wettemann:

Use Business Case to guide deploymentIntegrate Electronic Signature with your CRMTraining is not just functional: consider internal sales processes, internal motivations, and client communications

Electronic signatures can deliver positive ROI. Building a structured business case can both justify and guide a deployment so focus on breadth, repeatability and remember to leverage the cloud!

Heroku: Acquired by salesforce.com for $212 Million
Part of Cloud 2’s new offerings include Database.com, a database for the Cloud. salesforce.com added Ruby-on-Rails – the console for Database.com was built on Ruby. More than one million developers use Ruby and they love it.

Heroku, salesforce.com’s seventh cloud, is the number one platform for Ruby with 105,000 apps,

DocuSign is more than just electronic signatures, it's a complete web-based eSign solution working to help you close more business and make more money.