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About two weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to attend the 4Realz Internet marketing educational seminar as a sponsor. The event I attended was held at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The venue itself is an amazing place; I fully encourage everybody who can visit to do so. In fact, the center actually plays host to many schools for field trips, and so with the excitement of children in the air, the seminar kicked off promptly at 8:30am.

The seminar itself, hosted by Dustin Luther (Rain City Guide and Move.com) and Jim Marks (Virtual Results), is currently touring the west coast with the goal of helping the agents who attend better utilize their Internet marketing dollars and efforts. The class I attended lasted until 4pm, and not a single minute felt wasted! The course covers a great deal of material including everything from social networking to ROI. Throughout the seminar, agents are educated on the importance of understanding what consumers expect, and as Jim, states “different is better.”

Additionally, the two pointed out the importance of “original content” to establish better web presence during their seminar. I completely agree with them and can assure you that having original content on your site is an incredibly important subject. As many of you know, we have a very aggressive SEO (search engine optimization) program here at Diverse Solutions, and one of the key elements in our marketing packages is custom content. Basically, the more original and unique content you have on both your website and blog, the better chance you’ll have to be recognized by search engines and subsequently rank above your competitors.

As I thought about it a bit more, I decided to create a way for agents to better take advantage of this knowledge. For the remainder of the month, we will be offering 10 pages of custom content that can be added to your web site or blog for just $500; normally, we charge $1200 for this package! All you have to do to take advantage of this offer is just let us know what topics you would like us to cover (real estate related, of course). Our professional writers will do the rest. The offer is a great opportunity for individuals who recognize the importance of Jim and Dustin’s advice as well as those who may be considering implementing a marketing strategy in the near future.

Thanks again to both Dustin and Jim. You guys gave a great presentation, and I look forward to seeing you soon in Orange County!

(Note: If you’d like to attend the Orange County educational seminar, it’s only $49 for “the most informative 4-5 hours that you will likely ever spend on real estate education.” You can register here.)

Diverse Solutions is proud to announce our sponsorship of 4Realz Educational Seminars billed as “Valuable Internet Marketing Education for Realtors.”

Dustin Luther and Jim Marks have always been fans our dsSearchAgent Mapping IDX we just never knew how much. Evidentially they like it so much they ask if it was okay if they used it as an example of what TO use in their up coming REALTOR education seminars. The seminars are to focus on why Realtors are not succeeding on the Internet, and what they need to change and do, in order to be successful. Needless to say we were very happy with their choice.

Weeks went by then some great news came. They announced they were going to be having sponsors. We couldn’t think of a better way to get the word out about our IDX and help some REALTORS along the way. Not to mention after they explained the format and what they were going to be covering we knew it was going to be a success. So without hesitation we became an official sponsor. Little did we know that other power houses like Inman News, TOP PRODUCER, Zillow and Altos Research would also be involved. It doesn’t get any better than that.

4RealzEd.com will have 3 shows to start off with in the Southern California area with the first being in Los Angeles then to Irvine and San Diego. More cities will be scheduled later. Come out learn something new and talk with us. We’ll see you at the seminars.

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Everything is going smoothly with no noticeable slow down or loss of service during the upgrades. However, the maintenance on the admin/control panel is taking a little longer than expected.  It shouldn’t be much longer.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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And we’re done.  Everything has been tested and is back to normal.  We shouldn’t have to do anything like this again for a while now.  Thank you for your understanding and support.

On the night of Feb 21^st we will be conducting server maintenance at our data center.  We are making numerous upgrades to our servers to increase speed and reliability.  While we do this maintenance between 11pm and 3am PST there may be short times of slow or sporadic service.  This maintenance will NOT affect your email service.  If you can not log into the control panel for any reason to get to your web mail during this time try accessing it from http://webmail.diversesolutions.com.  If in the rare case we do encounter any problems or delays we will post updates here.  If you have any questions please let us know.

Diverse Solutions IT Team

First of all, a big thanks to all the attendees who visited our booth at the 2007 CAR EXPO at the Anaheim Convention Center. We were really excited to see so much enthusiasm about our product lineup, especially with our MLS Search Solution: dsSearchAgent. In fact many of you commented that we’re the only company out there providing the broad range of technology and services which dsSearchAgent provides. Also, a big thanks to Loren Nason at www.futureofrealestatetechnology.com, who we had the pleasure of meeting with at the show, he had great things to say about dsSearchAgent.

We heard a lot of "Web 2.0" being thrown around at this year’s conference and we would like to reiterate that this "wave of the future" isn’t all just flashy catch phrases, "Web 2.0" allows you to help not only your clients buy and sell property, but it also helps you, the Agent, to work smarter and faster. For those of you who stopped by our booth, or even have just visited our website, you know that helping you and your clients buy and sell homes faster and smarter is what Diverse Solutions is all about.

On a side note one our helpful sales team members, Sean, is telling me that quite a few of you asked if the new dsAgentChat can be integrated onto a non Diverse Solutions website. The answer is: yes it can. With a $99.95 setup fee and $19.95/month or $199.95/year subscription you can be up and running with dsAgentChat on any website you may have.

Again, I want to thank everyone who spent time with us at our booth at CAR, it’s always a great pleasure to meet new people, and talk face to face about our products. And if you thought we stepped up our booth this year, please visit us at the National Association of Realtors® Conference in Las Vegas Nevada, we have big plans in store! Hope to see you all there.

Welcome to the NEW Diverse Solutions Corporate Blog. My name is Justin LaJoie, and I am the CEO and President of Diverse Solutions.

After months of procrastinating over starting a company blog, we are finally here. I didn’t just want to put a blog up and post on it once or twice a month. If we were going to do it, we wanted to do it right. The biggest hurdle we had with this project was determining who was going to write all the posts. I certainly didn’t have time to write numerous posts a week, so I did what all good CEO’s do - I delegated. I selected individuals from each department that I felt had a lot to share, and from today on, you’ll see them posting articles within their areas of expertise.

You’ll see me posting from time to time about company updates and product ideas that we’d like to get some feedback on. In addition, we plan on discussing everything from website marketing tips to our thoughts on recent real estate news. Finally, we’ll also share some ideas on how to get the most out of our products and services.

We hope that this blog will help us better connect with our customers and with the real estate industry in general. If you have any requests on what you would like to see us talk about, just let us know through a comment.