Thinking about the impact of the snow today in the UK and one thing that may be affected is the speed of the mail system.

This need not be an issue though with Echosign. With Echosign you can quickly and easily get agreements signed and deals closed within 42 minutes on average. And it all takes place online with the same legal status of paper agreements.

So why not take a look at Echosign and use it remover all that paper (good for reducing office costs and helping the environment) and try e-signing with Echosign. http://www.echosign.com/ (affiliate link)

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In the UK, as soon as next week, the Royal Mail will largely be on strike. The impact is that mail will be delayed. This will of course affect thousands of retail businesses.The rest of us though should be unscathed.

Why? We have great solutions such as Echosign and Right Signature which facilitate simple, paperless and legal document signing. With Echosign for example you can either upload your agreement; create it from within Box.net or Google Apps and then provide the email addresses of those who need to sign in which order and that's it. The document is sent. The recipient adds their details, clicks Sign and both parties have the final PDF in their Inbox for filing (in their document management tool such as Box.net of course). The time taken is as long as it takes to open an email and enter your details.

As well as meaning no impact from the strike, benefits include:

• No paper which is great for both the environment and your office stationary costs
• No postage which again is great for costs
• Quicker completion which means more deals in less time. Great for efficiency

Altogether, the obvious solution. 

So why be affected by the postal strike?

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Echosign is the leader in Contracts 2.0. With Echosign it's as simple as you send, they sign and it's done. Here's an overview

<p>EchoSign: The Way the Web Signs from FromEchoSign on Vimeo.</p>

With integration to Google Docs, Zoho, Salesforce and Box.net it's an excellent complement to other Business 2.0 applications. Also, it 100% realises a paperless process thus making a major step in delivering the paperless office.  

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For a long time there has been much hope, speculation and promise of the paperless office.

For most such a reality seems impossible. For others, with an open mentality towards Business 2.0 the promise has been delivered.

A couple of recent blog posts from Business 2.0 enabling solutions, Huddle.net and Echosign, give weight to the argument that paperless is upon us.

Firstly, Huddle.net have posted on the topic of The New Way to Work: Document Management Software and how solutions such as theirs replace the now 20 years old Microsoft Word. An excerpt: "Twenty years later, Microsoft Word remains dominant in the industry, as the most popular word processing application.  However, Word is still currently an offline tool. Two decades of development on Word have created a tool that still shares a lot with its predecessors. With the latest versions of Word, you can’t collaboratively edit documents with people in real-time, and you can’t access you documents from the web"

Secondly there is Echosign. Echosign offer one of the best solutions for e-signing. Their post is on The Cost of Not Going Paperless. They assertively state: "It's just too darn cost effective to be 100% digital and electronic.  So the luddites are going to have to pay."

Look at your business paper based processes; are you hindered by 20 year old applications? Do you afford higher costs as a business by not using digital?

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