Mark, good talking with you this morning and after that quick conversation I could tell you've bottomlined the differences between these two companies pretty well.  As I mentioned, I am no longer with 1parkplace but providing (IDX agnostic) internet marketing solutions for agents and brokers through my own consulting company.  You can read my take on 1parkplace, diverse solutions and REWebmasters here as I've compiled some information that I think is important for any prospective buyer.   Hopefully you'll find it helpful.

Tom

951-733-0066

I am new to diverse solutions and am about to launch their platform on two of my sites.  Do any of you know how to use the widgit sliders on craigslist.com posts?  I was told by my salesman at the company that there is a wordpress template that allows you to place flash widgit sliders into craigslist.com ads.  I think that would drive a ton of traffick to my sites.  Anyone have any ideas??

Hi Craig,As far as I know, yes this should be possible and if I understand what you're trying to accomplish, it should be too tough.  The DS sliders are part of a module builder that once completed creates html code that you should be able to just copy and paste into an article, post or I'm assuming a craigslist ad. I'm pretty certain you can paste html into craigslist adds as we (or 1parkplace) had an automated craigslist listing poster that was quite nice.

Jon,

I'm pretty familiar with these two idx systems and have posted some details about the differences between  1parklace and Diverse Solutions as well as a few others on my site.

Hopefully it's helpful and feel free to contact me for more info or assistance.

Tom

www.veritycrm.com

Diverse Solutions is a great IDX search with regards to a solid presentation, good graphics, etc...  Looks very good.  There is a HUGE issue and it actually caused me to leave Diverse Solutions.  There is no basic address search with their program. 

So, let's assume that a buyer does what most buyers do...drive around areas and write down address of properties they see and would like to learn more about.  They get home, happen to get on your website and begin to look for their noted properties.  There is no way to find them without having to scroll over the map and then they'll only see their noted homes if the homes match their search criteria in the settings.  There is no other way to find their homes.  There is no basic, simple search by address option.  That's HUGE!  I tried to get my point across to Diverse Solutions and they were pretty arrogant and blase with their responses.  They simply didn't care.  As you and I know from being real estate professionals, you cannot overstate the importance of having a basic level address search on your IDX solution.  IDX solutions are too readily available now to the general public.  They'll simply find another site where you can search by address for a home you like.  It's a major issue with their service and all they say is that it is something they'll consider in the future.

Which leads me to my other point...their customer service is HORRIBLE.  If you search, you can find multiple threads and blogs talking about how bad the customer service is at Diverse Solutions.  Unfortunately for me, I found it too late.

Diverse solutions looks pretty, BUT they price their product like they are some sort of trophy bride deserving a house in Monte Carlo and and have servants clicking buttons for each user that does a search on their sites. Ok, maybe that's a little overblown, but you get the picture.  It's $100 per month for Austin so even though they sure do look pretty, I have accounts with Wolfnet and Real estate webmasters. Both provide solid solutions for a much more reasonable price. I've been thinking about making my own IDX solution, but haven't gotten there yet. A few more price increases and/or dragging feature lists and I'll be there though.

Diverse solutions has some great features and abilities, but their customer service is total garbage!  It's like they're working out of someone's parents basement!

Well, I know this is an old thread, but I want  throw my 2 cents in.  In my opinion, Diverse Solutions rocks!  The products are great, and my website visitors love using them. Bottom line is I have made a lot of sales with the help of DS.  I don't get the feeling at all that they are full of themselves at all... they are confident...and I am ok with that.

I went with Diverse Solutions but am considering leaving. New the the real estate web presence and they seemed the easiest to intergrate with a WordPress powered site. However, their customer service needs some serious overhaul. Especially "Kenny." He seems to have a bad attitude and doesn't seem like he wants to help. The biggest issue is lack of communication. The changed the way their tool reads the MLS feed from my area and didn't send out any warning that things would change - One day my clients searches just stopped working. Not good! Then I have to spend a whole day calling DS. I've never felt like I had to be such a squeaky wheel to get some traction and movement out of a vendor. Here's to looking for other solutions...

Yes and old thread Bill but still a good one.

DS sucks, and I've shared many of the reasons why with you.

It's framed solution laods slow. The further you are away from California, the slower it is.

Thei DSPRESS isn't customizable, has no client capture, loads slow, has 2 aerial maps loading, has outgoing links in their virual tours, is seldom improved, is often problematic, tehir mail server IP was recently banned, rendering my site referals useless, tech support hardly gives any details of solutions when and if they ever get any from programming. On and on.

I hope they get their act together because I have the damn thing integrated into my site to the point of no return