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so our ecig nature is even legal like if you have a client you sign a document or a contract do they hold up in court and if you're going to send a client a contract how exactly do you send it to make sure it's legally binding these are questions I get all the time and in today's video I'm actually going to teach you two major things one is how to send and sign contracts legally so how do you you sign a contract and make sure that the signature is binding and enforceable and how do you actually send that contract to the client to make sure that it's enforceable in the end if you're an online coach creative or consultant that wants to make sure that you're legally sending contracts and signing contracts the right way then today's video is for you to learn legal tips for online business hit subscribe and make sure you pop back in every Tuesday from my bite-sized legal tips I'm Sam Vander villian an attorney turned entrepreneur and I help coaches creatives and consultants learn how to legally protect and grow online businesses I've helped thousands of you send thousands more contracts the right way online over the past three years and if you're ready to do that - then let's hop in so let's talk a signature first things first our e signatures even valid can you sign contracts that way and send them over email or use these different assigning platforms I get those questions a lot long story short in the u.s. yes we have had a law called the e-sign act on the book since 2000 that basically says in a nutshell that just because a contract is assigned or used an e-signature to sign a contract doesn't in and of itself make it invalid so in other words the e-sign act tells us that in the US you can assign contracts but they have to be assigned correctly and that's what I'm going to teach you today so what does it mean to e sign a contract correctly basically it means that the person who's signing the contract whether it's a client customer contractor whoever you're sending your contract to has to have affirmatively consented to be signing as opposed to you know snail mail signing a contract so you could maybe do this in a number of different ways and of course you could always consult your own lawyer to make sure that the process that you choose would actually be compliant with the e-sign act and therefore make your contracts enforceable but a couple of ideas I have are you know building something into your onboarding process so that when you send your client the email with probably a link to your contract and invoice you maybe have something in there that says that by signing they are affirmatively consenting to having a signed as opposed to signing in a different way and...