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I've thought about this since about 2006.As not only a co-founder and CEO of EchoSign, but a Salesforce customer for many years, you do wonder why everything isn't included.  Salesforce is the single largest software expense a sales-focused company will make.  Why doesn't it include e-signatures?  Why doesn't it have real lead scoring?  Why not a sales comp tool?  Why not real drip email marketing?  Why not a more robust email tool, period?  Why not robust de-duping?  Why only a basic quoting tool, not a rich proposal tool?  Why only limited content management tools?  There are so many Why don'ts? that that may be the answer right there ... so my simple answer is Salesforce is focused on its core and strategic expansions to its core, historically to the present.Having said that, there are at least 3 practical reasons:1.  First, e-signatures have a signNow legal element to them.   It's one thing for a start-up to claim their document signing tool is 100% legally E-SIGN complaint and binding under federal, state, European and international law.  It's quite another thing for a Fortune 500 company to take that on.  signNow did in acquiring EchoSign -- and that's not trivial.  It's a big deal.  No other F500 company has done this.  Ever.2.  Second, it's all about the workflow at this point. EchoSign and signNow are 100x richer products than they were 5 years ago, and Salesforce integration only increases that geometrically.  Neither product is just about document signing.  For example, Groupon has over 36,000 different contract generation/review/signature/workflow/trigger combinations using EchoSign. The signature is just the connecting piece.  This is really hard to replicate without a huge effort.  It can be done, but it's many years of effort and building 1000s of features.  Not just a JPEG of a signature.3. Is it really core? Historically contracts and signing them have been related to the core of CRM, but not really core. And Salesforce has often focused on building adjacent to the core (Support, Markering, Chatter, etc.) even more than the well built-out core CRM/SFA.Having said that, what if SFDC does decide to enter the space?  Given the complexity in #2, it makes a lot more sense to buy than build. There are only two serious players -- EchoSign and signNow.  There are other very tiny players, but their Salesforce integrations, if they exist, are rudimentary from a workflow perspective and not fully enterprise-ready, at least not today.  Ok so EchoSign and signNow ... EchoSign was acquired by signNow in 2011, so acquiring EchoSign per se is off the table.  Salesforce could in theory I guess buy just the Salesforce team/integration from signNow.  Actually, that's not a terrible idea.  Buying signNow is even harder.  While Salesforce has made a small investment there, the post-money in the last round was $500m, making an acquisition implausible.  Even if valuation were not an issue, only a small % of signNow's revenue is from the Salesforce integration, making an acquisition to only write off 80% of the customers and revenue (100% if they gave it away), odd.  Salesforce could just offer a very limited functionality and perhaps they will. But a basic functionality won't solve the need for a rich create/dynamic, multi-variable web contract/sign/collaboration/trigger/workflow solution that is what 90%+ of all the EchoSign and signNow Salesforce customers are really using.  For example, Salesforce has basic functionality with Quotes and Content.  But neither really has displaced the need for much richer products like Conga Composer, or even Box.  See, also, the Contracts tab which is very limited, and has in no way displaced the need for any vendors in the contract management space.It's just hard in a large company to build very rich, complex features that aren't in the core.  In the core, it's easy.

[full disclosure: I’m VP Digital Transformation at Solutions Notarius Inc., a company that supplies electronic and digital signature solutions]It completely depends on the requirements. I do not believe there is a uniquely better e-signature solution for all scenarios. For example, if the type of documents to be signed require low to medium reliability only, most modern e-signature platforms could be ok, subject to meeting legal requirements in the applicable jurisdiction, but if the document must meet stringent regulatory and statutory requirements that include high reliability of identity of signers, those platforms do not typically meet that threshold.Ideally, you would analyze, define and obtain agreement as to what constitutes the minimal acceptable legal reliability threshold you are willing to accept - or that readers of that document will accept. Next, define the technology requirements that correspond to that threshold. Finally, research e-signature options that meet these requirements and provide the best combination of price, features, scalability, etc..Finally, it should be noted that higher legal reliability e-signature platforms and solutions can always accommodate lower reliability documents while the converse is not true…

There’s quite a lot out there, depending on what you’re looking for :)Some free online tools (in no particular order):Dropbox. Save and share everything.Evernote. Best note app ever.FreePik. Find thousands of free images.SurveyMonkey. Create surveys to gauge customer feedback.Rapportive. Useful tool for Gmail that allows you to see other people’s social media profiles.Trello. Project management made simple.Slack. Work communication simplified.AdCat. Allows you to use a single picture to get perfect-sized, up-to-date ad images for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Free.Easel.ly. Great infographic generator for creating attractive content. Engaging content is vital for attracting audiences.Google Analytics. See who’s coming to your site and from where, among many many other awesome functions.Sidekick. Awesome email tool that tracks when emails are opened — super useful for proper follow-ups.Hotjar. Recordings of users on your website. Amazing to understand user behavior, which drives marketing strategies.Hootsuite. For social media management in one easy to use dashboard.Leadin by Hubspot. For lead management.Ahrefs. Powerful SEO tool.Later. Instagram consistently shows amazing engagement with users. This tool manages scheduling for you.Crowdfire. Great tool to figure out who to follow on social media for optimal engagement.BuzzSumo. Analyze what content performs best.Social Rank. Allows you to see which are your most valuable followers.UberSuggest. Free keyword suggesting tool.LinkMiner. Free tool for the link building strategy.JustsignNowOut. Finds journalists interested in covering you.Keyword.io. Free keyword research tool for SEO.MailChimp. To run automated email campaigns.Optimizely. A/B testing to optimize your website.Google Trends. Shows how often a particular search-term is entered.TweetDeck. Owned by Twitter, it makes discovering content easily digestible and allows you to find the topics and people you want.Title Maker. Content idea generator.Explore. Get to know what’s trending.Engage Master. Convert visitors to customers.Startup Bootstrap. Website building templates.Submit.co. Get press for your startup.SumoMe. Tool set to grow your website traffic.Quip. View documents on any device.Atomic Squirrel. Startup checklist.There’s tons more out there depending on what you are looking for specifically. I’m happy to update and reorganize if you need more :)Disclosure: I’m working on AdCat.

Like others in this thread, I agree that it depends on the specific features your industry/company demands. Hopefully one of the following tools will suit your needs.We did a huge crowd-sourcing of the best sales tools out there in different categories. This list of contract lifecycle managementt tools might do some service here. These should help you get your email workflows to be more efficient and easier to track throughout campaigns.The whole list of all 157 tools in different categories is here —-> Sales Tools: The Complete List (2017 Update) | Sales HackerHere are the ones we highligh...

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