Happy Holidays and The Year in Review

As we close out 2008, we want to say a big thank you to our now almost 600,000 users and over 9,000 customers worldwide.

We truly appreciate your support, feedback, and input -- and please keep it coming.

So what of 2008, and 2009 to be?

We predict with some confidence that 2009 will be the year that electronic signatures and e-contracting get boring -- in a good way.  By that, we mean 2009 will be the year electronic contracts and signatures finally catch up to where shopping carts and e-commerce technology were in 1999 and become simply a standard, accepted, mainstream way of closing deals. 

Why?  Here's what we've seen since 2005:

2006 was about small businesses, Techcrunch followers, and early adopters seeing the immediate value in adopting a 100% web-based signature process.

2007 was about evolving, improving, and expanding EchoSign so that it met the needs of enterprises of every size.  So that almost every business could benefit from e-signature and e-contracting technology.

2008 was the year we grew our base.  We closed another 20 of the Fortune 500 and thousands of others, expanded our leadership in the technology vertical, and dramatically enhanced EchoSign with features as varied as benchmarking, real-time alerts and reports and analytics to enhance our value.

And in 2009, our goal is to make it all boring.  To continue to relentlessly take friction out of every piece of the signature process and our service itself, so that every organization, every company, every enterprise can simply adopt electronic signature and contracting technology without much of second thought.

1999 was the year the on-line shopping cart went mainstream.  2009 will be the same for on-line signatures and contracts.

It's about time.