This year I vowed to invest more time into improving various aspects of my business with efficiency being trumped only by prospecting/ lead conversion. As many of us do I got onto the Internet and spent way to many hours looking around and different ways to improve my efficiency and I found a lot of great ideas and tools but only one of them rules king on my list.
DOCUSIGN has been an amazing time saver for me and my office. Before I set up my account with Docusign I had no idea of how versatile such a simple application could be. Sure, it took me a few contracts to figure out all of the bells and whistles that I use on a regular basis and I'm sure there are more. You can use it to put in an optional initial or signature for your clients, require them to sign or initial certain parts of a contract or even put in customizable fields but those are just the tools that the application gives you. Playing around with them taught me that they are more than just simple click here/ sign here buttons for REALTOR® forms.
For example: I needed to have a pest inspection revision signed by a client today in order for the contractor to make an unforeseen adjustment. It used to be that I would have to receive the email from the contractor, print it out, add a cover sheet telling where to sign, call my client and tell her to check her fax machine and then proceed to fax the contract over and wait for a return. Today that was far from the case. I simply received the email, sent the pdf contract to a Docusign envelope marked where the signatures were needed and hit send. Once my client receives an email she simply follows the on screen instructions and voila my contract is signed.
Did I mention she lives in Florida and I am in California and that the whole process of signing can be accomplished in minutes versus a day or more?
Needless to say, if you are looking for a way to expedite your business processes and increase efficiency then Docusign may be your magic bullet. Not only does it make you more time efficient it helps the environment by eliminating unnecessary paper waste from fax machines or postage.
One word of caution though. Not all banks and institutions accept electronic signatures so check with the receiving party of any paperwork to make sure that an electronic signature will suffice.
Get after it!
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