It’s Earth Day! How are you helping to save 837 Tons of Paper?

From the first Earth Day in 1970, going green has become a serious issue with businesses and consumers creating positive change by making simple changes such as paying bills online, using public transportation, recycling and other conservation initiatives. For businesses around the globe, DocuSign Electronic Signature Service is a key factor in successful green initiatives.

Where can you go to find a green solution for your business? 

It's easy.  DocuSign Electronic Signature service.  To commemorate Earth Day, DocuSign calculated that users of DocuSign have created a more eco-friendly environment by reducing consumption of approximately 837 tons of paper or nearly 14,230 trees.  DocuSign has significantly reduced businesses reliance on traditional, more antiquated methods of communication by revolutionizing the way documents are shared, signed and stored. DocuSign eSignature service eliminates the need to print, fax, scan, mail and store paper documents by providing a fast, green easy to use electronic document signing process.  And when you consider the amount of paper that one real estate transaction can create, you can imagine how many trees would be saved, if everybody used DocuSign. 

DocuSign Earth-Friendly Factoids

In honor of Earth Day's 40^th anniversary, DocuSign has calculated additional green factoids to offer greater perspective on its role in providing a more eco-friendly alternative to conduct business.  In addition to the successful rescue of 14,230 trees, the amount of paper waste DocuSign has reduced:

• If placed end-to-end, would reach 117,397,337 feet in total distance, which would line the edge of the continental United States twice or 22,234 miles-just 2,000 sheets shy of wrapping the Earth's equator. This is also five times longer than either the 4,300 mile length of Amazon River or the 4,132 mile length of the Nile River.
• If stacked, would reach more than 2,846 stories in height. This is more than 2,745 more stories than one of the tallest buildings in the world, the Taipei 101. The Taipei 101 reaches 1,671 feet or 509 meters and is 101 stories in height.

 So how does it work? 

DocuSign is a web-based solution so you can easily access DocuSign from any computer with internet.  Login into your DocuSign account, upload your documents to be signed, quickly drag and drop familiar yellow DocuSign Stick-eTabs®, and hit send (kind of like with email).  DocuSign  actually hold the documents in a secure server, while also sending an email to your signer's. The recipient(s) immediately receive the email notification that there are documents ready for e-signing, access the secure documents by a link in the email, adopt their e-signature and is then guided through the eSign process. It's literally click, click and you're done.  Once completed, DocuSign will send an email notification to all parties with a link to the final executed document. The document can be archived digitally, eliminating the need to print or physically store.

On the run all day? 

DocuSign is available on your mobile device. Any document can be quickly accessed through a computer or any Web-enabled mobile device, including Apple^® iPhone^® or iPad^®, RIM^® BlackBerry^®, Google^® Android^TM, Windows Mobile^®smartphone.

In a nutshell, the result is a legally binding, fully ESIGN-compliant document supported by a comprehensive audit trail.  

Wow!  That was a lot of information at one time. If you are interested in how you can save more trees and make your business more eco-friendly with a state of the art electronic signature solution like DocuSign, you can learn more by going to our website.

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