Sign in Style was down

Dear All,
Recently Sign in Style was down for one whole night or day (depending on your time zone). It was because our hosting provider messed up big time and they to had reinstall OS on their server. We really apologize for the same. And we will make sure this kind of thing does not happen again.

Sorry,
Abhishek

Sign in Style on Facebook!

Hello All,
All of you must be aware of Facebook, an exciting social network application growing rapidly. They provide facility to create “Page” for your product so that you can upload related contents to that page and promote it to build community around it. It is a new way to promote your brand so why should Sign in Style be behind.

You can access Facebook Page of Sign in Style from here. You need to be member of Facebook to become a fan and add contents but looking at the growing popularity of Facebook in India there is pretty good chance that you are already hooked to it like me.

See you on Facebook :)

Regards,
Abhishek

Opening up Sign in Style for various platforms

Opensocial version of Sign in Style is here! Now Orkut users will be able to take pleasure of designer signature using Opensocial application of Sign in Style. Above is the screenshot of the same how the application might look like.

At Sign in Style and DIGICorp (parent company) we constantly believe in innovating and adapting to new technologies to make our products better.

SIS-Orkut is one example of that.

Infact we started with Facebook application of Sign in Style much before this. Following is the screenshot of same.


The applications are just about to complete and we will be putting them live after the Indian New Year (Diwali).

This will open up altogether new user base for Sign in Style. 50m users of Facebook and more than 200m users of Opensocial network will be target user base.

What you think of this latest initiative by Sign in Style? please let us know.

Regards,
Sign in Style team

Some more publicity for SIS :)

Dear All,
There is some more publicity for our own Sign in Style.

NetWebApps, Web 2.0 Apps and Sites directory included www.signinstyle.com.
You can access the link from here.

Please visit and give some rating!! If possible also write what you think about us.

Regards,
Sign in Style team

Sign in Style in China !

I am glad to announce that Chinese Web 2.0 blog called www.wangtam.com has written about Sign in Style.

This is the Translated link of the article.

If you know Chinese you can visit the article here.

We are getting good coverage in Blogosphere now a days. Thanks to all the bloggers who have find us worth writing for.

Regards,
Sign in Style Team

Sign in Style is a Killer Startup !

Hello All,
We are glad to announce that all of our efforts are taking shape in last few days after launching paid version of Sign in Style. Two days back www.KillerStartups.com, a blog which tracks the most happening startups in web posted article in Sign in Style. And we got good amount of traffic and of course requests due to that. Check out the following URL for the same and don't forget to vote and comment :)

http://www.killerstartups.com/eCommerce/signinstyle--Design-your-Signature/

PS: Check out the polling result for Sign in Style. Now we did not know we can raise an IPO for this :)

This Startup will:

Go IPO 28%
Get VC $ 22%
Be Bought 28%
Survive 22%

Keep Signing,
Sign in Style Team

Stylized Products !

Hey,
We are planning to have a new feature called "Stylized Products" in Sign in Style. Using that you can have you signatures printed on t-shirts, mugs and on various other offerings. Following are the sample images with sample signatures printed on them. Do let us know how do you find the idea ??

Sign in Style is recruiting

Dear All,
Sign in Style is buzzing with activities lately after it got relaunched in a paid version. So that means we are in need of Signature Designers and Handwriting Experts.

So if you are looking for a professional job that allows you to work at your leisure, gives a vent to your creativity, and even pays you well, then spare no time. Visit us at www.signinstyle.com or contact Abhishek Desai at +91 98790 33534.

Mind you it is no layman's job. It is something you will proudly put on your CV.

One more announcement we have taken down the data from older version of SIS so users of previous version wont be able to access their signatures now. Sorry for the inconvenience but we had to do that as we are facing space crunch on the website.

Regards,
Sign in Style team

Finally Sign in Style is Reloaded !!

Hello Everyone,
Thanks for your constant support and visits that forced us to develop a service which is truly unique in its nature and equally exciting.

I am sure all of you must have gone through the site. The Designer Signatures which we offered earlier are there as always but we have also added Graphological Signatures which is a one of its kind service. The peculiarity of Graphological Signatures is that it combines your handwriting analysis and suggests signatures which are truly personalized.

Your response in the first day of our launch has been amazing and it enthuses us to work more.

The new sections to be added to Sign in Style are

1) Gift a Signature: It is a gift certificate kind of a service which allows you to gift Signatures to your loved ones. Amazing isn't it??

2) Stylized Products: Mugs, Wallets, Key Chains, Checkbook Holders, Office Products and a lot more will bear your Stylish Signatures so that you can flaunt them in Style.

And hey you can still visit your signatures on our previous version of website located at www.signinstyle.com/ver1

Please do tell us what you think about the new design, services and the overall concept and any other inputs if you have.

Thanks,
Sign in Style team

CNBC Awaaz Coverage of Sign in Style

Hello,
I know its too too too late to do this but here is the CNBC Awaaz video which covered Sign in Style service. I was waiting for their approval to put this video in public. I was just confirming about any copyright issue. But they have not replied about it after so many attempts of mine so I assume that they are fine with it.

So finally check out Awaaz Plus video and let us know your comments.



The video is in Hindi so those of you who don't know Hindi just wait for few days until some other channel covers us ;)

Cheers,
Abhishek

Spilling Secrets!!

Hello All,
First of all I am really sorry for not putting up a post since long.
But we were really busy working on the new Sign in Style. We call it "SIS Reloaded" ;)

So let me leak a few secrets today. Secrets of the evolving SIS. But its a secret so keep it so.

It is coming in a newer, sleeker, sexier look.

It is adding to its services. The Designer Signature is of course there but added to it shall be Graphological Signature and Stylized Products.

Graphological Signature shall be based on handwriting samples and their analysis. While with Stylized Products you will be able to imprint your signature on various stuff like mugs, wallets, office stationery, etc.

So let the secret be between us. Share it NO MORE! But do let us know your suggestions.

Regards,
Abhishek

Guess What!!

Hey ppl,
If you read following text on the Home page and Registration page and wonder what is it then here is the answer...

"Sign in Style is a unique effort to help you have a better signature.
And Guess what??
Sign in Style is Evolving...Keep checking Sign in Style BLOG for latest updates and development..."

Yes it is true, we are evolving and we are evolving for good.
We are coming up with many more services and surprises !! But I cant divulge the secret here.

But if you would like to be informed about the developments then mail us on updateme@signinstyle.com . Your wait will be worth it !

So till then keep signing !! (Your original signature or stylish one!! :) )

Abhishek

Clarification !

Dear User,
If you have encountered following message instead of an email with activation link as expected, I would like to clarify few things.

"Thank You for Registration. Your data has been saved successfully! We are really sorry to inform you that due to some thousand hits, we are left with many pending requests to serve. We value your time taken for registration, however your account will not be activated right now. A notification will be sent to you via mail once your request will be ready to serve. Sorry for the inconvenience caused. For more clarification of the issue please visit Sign in Style BLOG"

This service was covered in CNBC Awaaz news channel on 30th April and after that it has become famous overnight. We have received nearly 4000 requests after that day. Due to this sudden burst we are left with many pending requests at this moment. And most of the users are unhappy due to delay in sending their signatures.

So we don't want to disappoint any new users from now on. That is why we have temporarily stopped taking any new request until we are not done with all of the current ones.

If you have registered, be assured of your data. We have saved your data at this moment but we have not activated your account. This means your request will not be processed at this moment.

We will send you an email once we are ready to go ahead with your name. Meanwhile please support this free service.

Yours Sincerely,
Abhishek

We are coming on TV again!!

Dear Readers,
We are coming again on TV today. No... its not some new channel who is covering our service.

It is the same old special CNBC Awaaz who is showing us in the repeat telecast of their previous episode.

The name of the show is "Awaaz Plus" and it will come at 5:30 PM and 11:oo PM

Thank you very much CNBC Awaaz for giving us this coverage and thank you Aditee Kulkarni (Assistant Producer) for reminding us. :)

Abhishek

We are hiring !!

Hello All,
If you think that Sign in Style is an interesting concept and if you have good handwriting skills and creativity, you can come on our side of the game.

If you are living in Ahmedabad, Gujarat then all the more good.

Please email payal at payal.shah@digi-corp.com for the same.

Thanks,
Abhishek

An Open Request

Dear Registered Users,
I am here to make a genuine request to you.

We know that you all are eagerly waiting for the signatures.
We know that we have taken longer time than you must have expected.

But we are trying our best and we are working very hard to finish the backlog we have right now.

We have more than 3800 users now out of which 2366 are active at this moment. It means we still have to make signatures for 2366 users as of today and these numbers are increasing every day. And the problem is all these new users have come between 30th April and 7th May, following the CNBC Awaaz episode describing our service. So it is virtually impossible to finish all the requests within 3-7 days and thats why most of the users might have to wait longer than 7 days.

Signature designing is not a mechanical job. It is an art. It requires lot of creativity to come out with good ideas and then we have to make videos also for them. So all these things take a little time.

We are looking forward to completing all the requests very soon so please bare with us meanwhile and support our team.

Yours Sincerely,
Abhishek

The Team

Hey All,
Today I would like to introduce the faces behind this initiative.

Mamta
She is the one who makes sure that you get your signatures on time.
She manages, motivates, pressurizes, reprimand (especially ankit) the signature designers. She is the one who responds to your queries. She is the one who reminds you if you have still not activated your account or if you haven't checked your signatures yet.

In short she is the Team leader of Sign in Style.



Unnati
She is called "The lucky charm" for Sign in Style. Since she has joined this team, SIS has gained some immense popularity. As an NID (National Institute of Design) student she is impressively creative and has shown consistent improvement in creating signatures.

We really appreciate the efforts she has put, in current situation when Ankit was not there for few days and she was the only signature designer for 2 days.

All the best to this "Lucky Charm" of SIS and we hope that the service gets more and more popular under her influence.

Ankit
Cool guy with a cool attitude. He has been little lucky in this time of crisis. He was on leave when the news came on CNBC Awaaz and was spared from facing the sudden burst of requests for signatures. But anyways these girls are having foolproof plan for him once he comes back tomorrow.

Very creative and full of enthusiasm. God spare him from Mamta ;)



And today SIS team welcomes new member "Reena". She looks very promising and we wish all the best to her (There are more than 3000 users now, Reena). lol

Abhishek

Welcome post

Hello All,

Welcome to Sign in Style!

Actually its very late to start writing for Sign in Style as it had started its alpha testing on February 7, 2007 and launched its beta version on March 7, 2007. But still here is the brief history of Sign in Style.

Sometime in late December 2006
- An idea struck to DIGICorp co-founders (As far as I know it was kuntal and sanket) as Abhishek wanted to change his signature but couldn't find any online service to do so
- Kuntal came up with an idea to start a similar service on our own
- We all took it very lightly at that time

31st December 2006
- Idea got solid base as Minal and Abhishek started planning for it at hospital waiting for minal's brother to get released from bed.
- Workflow, deadlines were set in the parking of hospital

1st January 2007
- Execution started

7th February 2007
- Released alpha version to be tested by near and dear ones.
- Good work PHP department :)

7th March 2007
- Beta launch

16th March 2007
- Economic Times writes a great article about www.signinstyle.com which puts site in limelight.

30th April 2007
- CNBC Awaaz cover the service in detail in the show called "Awaaz plus".
- Sign in Style gets famous overnight
- Records 500+ requests for signature in one night

1st May 2007
- Sign in Style team almost gets a nervous breakdown from such a huge response :)
- Every minute 2-3 new registration were there
- Total number of users crosses the 2000 mark
- Sign in Style earns 26$ in a day from google adsense ( Finally some money :) )

2nd May 2007
- Requests are still coming in and here I am writing this blog :)

Please take time to read my next post about CNBC episode as the story is very interesting, at least from our point of view ;)

Abhishek