Once an industry insider and leader, now clinging to life
Yesterday will go down in history as the day that one of the formerly largest companies in the world filed for bankruptcy protection. What went wrong? Some will say GM lost touch with what the consumers wanted, and as a result, consumers flocked to their competition overseas. ...
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June 2, 2009
dsSearchAgent IDX: Now Available At The Speed of Ridiculous
Two days ago, we deployed a very significant change to the way our dsSearchAgent IDX product is served to our clients and our clients’ clients. Did you notice? No, there weren’t any new features this time around. This time, we focused our efforts on load time and performance. Overall, we were ...
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May 21, 2009
Introducing dsListingExpress
I'm proud to announce that Diverse Solutions has been working hard to develop a free offering for the Real Estate community. We all know that creating listings in the MLS systems can be time consuming, and often error prone this is a problem that dsListingExpress completely solves. So without further ado, ...
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March 31, 2009
dsSearchAgent IDX ♥’s Walk Score
Okay, we admit it. We’re suckers for Walk Score and the philosophy behind it. Here’s how Front Seat, the guys behind Walk Score, describe their product: Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, ...
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March 25, 2009
Data Is More Important Than Ever – A Podcast Interview With Mike Simonsen of Altos Research
Mike Simonsen, a co-founder of the real estate data provider Altos Research takes some time to speak with me regarding the importance of great data in delivering a top notch real estate web presence. I've had the opportunity to view a couple of presentations on the Altos product line up ...
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March 10, 2009
Social Media: Friend or Foe?
The idea for this post came from a comment that someone shared with me in Facebook. He shared with me that he actively denies friend requests from agents in his market that share the same desire to be found via common keywords and phrases in searches. The conversation led me ...
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March 9, 2009
Event Calendar – Come & See Us!
This year Diverse Solutions has taken to the road to support several real estate related events. In addition to promoting our products and services, we want to spend time in different markets to meet real estate professionals and find out what's working for people and what keeps them awake at ...
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March 3, 2009
Foreclosures According to IDX Data
There’s (obviously) been a lot of talk about foreclosures lately. From my perspective though, it seems as if the ratio of cited foreclosure sources to media reports and blog posts on foreclosures is approaching one. We all know that foreclosures are high, but it kinda makes you wonder who to ...
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February 19, 2009
Nichefy Your IDX – Running The Rails With Nick Bastian
One of the folks I've met and had a good time getting know in the RE.net is Nick Bastian. Nick is a Realty Executives agent in the Phoenix area that has turned an interest into a business model through a truly uniquely defined niche. NIck operates RailLife.com, a blog and real ...
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February 10, 2009
Dwellicious – A Podcast With The Founders
One of the more stalwart uses of social media from the very beginning has been defined as "social bookmarking". Essentially it's a way to save and share in a way that goes way beyond the traditional bookmarking methods of a web browser. Recently a couple of veterans of the world ...
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February 5, 2009
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