echosign: Stan White Manages 700+ Vacation Homes Using EchoSign
- 12/03/12 01:51 PM
A full-service real estate and construction company, Stan White Realty & Construction has been in business more than 30 years and currently manages over 700 vacation rental homes. The company also offers long-term residential management services, commercial leasing, construction and remodeling services, among other things.
Managing that many properties meant a lot of paperwork, averaging between 600-1,000 contracts per month. Emailing, faxing and postage/shipping were a huge part of the staff's day when trying to get contracts signed. It took on average 7-10 days to receive a signed rental contract, and usually longer to receive payment. To get rid of … (2 comments)
echosign: Ashoka Lion Shifts to a Paperless Office Using EchoSign
- 11/11/12 02:46 PM
As a full service property management firm, Ashoka Lion provides investor management as well association management services in the Houston and Dallas area. Ashoka Lion strives to be a premiere real estate firm leading the charge towards running an ecologically conscious company.
In 2009 the company made a commitment to creating a paperless office environment to support its cost saving agenda and reduce its ecological impact. Striving to be a leader in providing cutting edge services to their clients, the company created an online portal for owners, tenants, vendors. In addition, the company has made a concerted effort to collect … (2 comments)
echosign: E-Signing Made Easy Via Customer Videos
- 10/22/12 10:12 AM
Sometimes we all need some help figuring out how to do something. This usually involves a quick Google search in the hopes that the answer we need pops up in the preview section of the search results and we can continue on with the project at hand while scanning a couple lines of text. Most often, however, lengthy articles populate the pages, and you’re tasked with having to spend more time reading about how to do something than it actually takes to just do it. Although there's no magic formula for a lot of our daily tasks, we can help … (8 comments)
echosign: Making a Difference: Adobe EchoSign Uses Social Media to Help Children
- 09/17/12 01:45 PM
Here at Adobe EchoSign, we're keeping busy highlighting our integration with Salesforce.com. Dreamforce, Salesforce’s largest user conference (and one of the largest technology trade shows in general), is going on in San Francisco this week, bringing together more than 70,000 people to talk tech.
Not only will our customers Groupon, Time Warner Cable, Electronic Arts and Solar City speak on the benefits of using EchoSign, but we will also have a very special guest joining us at the event this year – the Adobe EchoBot! This 6 foot tall, talking, singing, dancing robot will be chatting up guests in … (2 comments)
echosign: Test Your Knowledge: Adobe EchoSign e-Signature Trivia Game
- 09/10/12 03:59 PM
Here at Adobe EchoSign, we've been having a fun summer over on Facebook. Aiming to both educate and entertain social media enthusiasts on e-signatures, every week for 8 weeks we are featuring a different category (pop culture, music, technology, sports, history, entertainment, environment and business) of trivia questions.
This week we're all about entertainment and media. Friend us on Facebook to play our game (http://www.facebook.com/EchoSign) to test your mad trivia skills. Even if you don't get the questions right, you can still watch a short and funny cartoon -- and learn a few things about how electronic signatures are being … (1 comments)
echosign: People DO Change – Debunking the Myth of Stubbornness
- 07/26/12 01:59 PM
In case you missed Bob’s post earlier this week, I wanted to share the winners of our May contest again (see below). In doing this contest and reading the corresponding posts from all of you, it really becomes apparent how often we shift a process or a way of thinking in order to accommodate modern technology. Even more importantly than how often it happens, is how open we are to allowing it to happen. The cliché that people don’t change doesn’t seem to exist here.
Think back to when you finally took the plunge and bought your first smart phone. … (2 comments)
echosign: Cantlivewithoutit Technology: Wrapping up our May Contest
- 07/23/12 12:31 PM
We have finally chosen the winners of our May contest on the technology you can’t live without. It was a lot of reading – interesting and insightful reading – and we definitely learned a lot about the different tools that are out there, and it appears that many of you readers did as well.
It’s hard to whittle down all of things we turn to every day into 1 awesome tool, and it was especially obvious when reading about the countless apps, devices and programs that were mentioned. I was talking to a colleague last week about writing school papers … (3 comments)
echosign: A Groupon Sales Rep Uses eSignatures to Close Business on Vacation
- 05/21/12 02:00 PM
Our May contest is nearing the end -- for those of you who haven’t checked it out yet (details here), the theme centers around technology that you use every day that you can’t live without. I wanted to tell this story about Groupon, because even though they are outside of this industry, the way they use electronic signatures -- sending contracts to their clients -- is very similar to how agents and brokers send contracts as well, albeit on a large scale. One even was able to close deals and have them be automatically updated while he was away on vacation … (0 comments)
echosign: How Groupon Uses Electronic Signatures Over 1,000 Times a Day
- 05/14/12 01:07 PM
Our May contest has reached the halfway point and we have some good posts so far. For those of you who haven’t checked it out yet (details here), the theme centers around technology that you use every day that you can’t live without. The Groupon sales team sends out 1,000+ contracts each day via EchoSign – it’s become a valuable solution that they rely on every day, multiple times a day. Since Groupon’s business model is to offer up daily deals to all their subscribers, they need a single place to manage and send out contracts for signature that allows them … (3 comments)
echosign: The Technology That’s Changed Our Business
- 05/08/12 02:05 PM
As part of the contest we’re running this month (details here) I thought it would be fun for us to also share with the group the tools that our company, EchoSign, cannot live without. Our product works great as a standalone tool, but a lot of our customers use several tools every day and like them to talk to one another. Integration with various customer relationship management (CRM) databases, as well as cloud storage applications are key for us because they help facilitate the contract prepping and sending process for our customers. One of our main integrations is with leading CRM solution … (3 comments)
echosign: Check Our May Contest - You Could Be One of our 9 Winners
- 05/01/12 03:07 PM
When Bob and I were brainstorming this month's contest, I kept going back to the theme of technology and how it's helped us -- and some would argue, also hurt us. And I started thinking about how we used to do business back in the day. I'm sure many of you, just like me, remember work before email. How did we get anything done? Even though most of us lived in the time before cell phones, email, the internet, etc., it's still hard to remember how we actually did our jobs.
If any of you are fans of Mad Men (my … (8 comments)
echosign: RainCamp Rocked!
- 04/26/12 01:23 PM
Many of you joined me last week for RainCamp. As someone new to real estate it was nice to see such enthusiasm for the industry. As someone who’s hosted and participated in various webinars for over 10 years, I know how hard it is to get everyone psyched up – and keep them interested for over 3 hours! Well done, ActiveRain. I really enjoyed all of the speakers and all of the great info shared. What was your favorite part? P.S. - If you caught my 5 minutes of RainCamp fame you learned about our free trial, a pot we’ve made sweeter … (6 comments)
Even Sephora (the make-up and beauty chain) is introducing iPads in their stores, making it easier for customers to connect with their products. By connecting your clients directly to what you offer, you are closing the gap between the start of a conversation and a closing on a new home.
Here’s how an iPad can help you close more business and be more efficient:
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echosign: Realty Inspection Services Takes FAX out of the Equation
- 03/24/12 01:41 PM
When you’re concerned about approvals, loans, pricing, escrow, way, way down on that priority list is a fax machine! Yet money talks, especially when it is leaving your wallet; and using old, inefficient, and expensive tools impacts your business and your personal efficiency. With the explosion of technology and mobile platforms, it’s time to put the fax machine down and move forward!
Realty Inspection Services of Dallas Fort Worth is an independent, locally owned real estate inspection company. Their insurance coverage requires a signed service agreement prior to releasing all inspection reports. In addition, duplicate copies of each agreement … (0 comments)
echosign: The Added Benefits of “Going Green” = $$$ in Your Pocket and Jobs
- 03/19/12 01:33 PM
We’ve all been there – at least once – stuck at the copy/scan/fax/printer combo machine trying to figure out the mystery “error” message and flashing light that is preventing us (and the rest of the office) from using said machine. This is usually the point where you ask yourself, “How much money can I really save by removing paper from this process?”
Whether you work for yourself, a small company or large corporation, real cost savings can be achieved without a lot of headaches. Of course the obvious costs associated with this are paper and ink/toner cartridges, but the … (5 comments)
echosign: Convenient, but not Intrusive: The Little Things that Make Work/Life Balance Easier
- 03/14/12 02:10 PM
As some of you already know, I am new to this space, and my company (Adobe EchoSign), but I have been working in technology marketing for over a decade. Technology in general is supposed to make our lives easier, but it often gets in the way, and some could argue that it’s becoming more of a burden rather than helping us to keep track of everything going on. There are those rare moments though, when technology magically appears and saves the day (or your butt, in most cases), allowing you to keep up the appearance of being completely on top of … (4 comments)
echosign: Earning Trust in Changing Times
- 02/08/12 03:55 PM
A big hello to the ActiveRain community! As someone brand new to ActiveRain, I wanted to briefly introduce and tell you a little bit about myself. I’m also brand new to the Adobe® EchoSign® marketing team, specializing in real estate and other industries. I’m looking forward to getting more involved with the ActiveRain community and real estate as a whole. I’m certain I’ll be learning a lot from everyone here.
Last month, Adobe EchoSign sponsored a contest all around the idea of trust. “How do your feelings about trust impact your business or your life?” was the question that contest … (4 comments)
A full-service real estate and construction company, Stan White Realty & Construction has been in business more than 30 years and currently manages over 700 vacation rental homes. The company also offers long-term residential management services, commercial leasing, construction and remodeling services, among other things.
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