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NOV
29

For Rent Media Solutions Promotes Ann Meisenheimer to Midwest North Regional Manager

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Wendy Froehlich
Marketing Director
Wendy.Froehlich@forrent.com
Phone: 757-961-4695
Fax: 757-282-6015

 

For Rent Media SolutionsTM Promotes Ann Meisenheimer to Midwest North Regional Manager

Former general sales manager will be responsible for the sales efforts of 11 Midwestern markets

Norfolk, VA-(December 29, 2006) - For Rent Media Solutions, a leading apartment resource for searching apartment communities nationwide and a division of Dominion Enterprises, is proud to announce the promotion of Ann Meisenheimer to Midwest North Regional Manager. She will oversee the sales efforts of the following markets: Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Lexington, Pittsburg and Toledo.

“It is an honor to have this opportunity to be a part of such a progressive company, in an ever transitional industry,” said Meisenheimer. “I am thrilled to be working with our talented Senior Management Team and the successful Midwest North Region.”

Meisenheimer joined For Rent Media Solutions in 1998 when she was hired as a general sales manager to launch the For Rent Media Solutions office in Chicago.  Prior to joining For Rent, she was the publisher of a Chicago apartment magazine.  Ann is a four time For Rent Media Solutions President’s Club winner. The President’s Club award is given to For Rent’s most outstanding employees, acknowledging them for their sales efforts. Meisenheimer was also awarded Best Overall Operation in 2004, the 2004 Internet City of the year and Best Overall Administrative City in 2005.

“Ann is a tremendous leader and has a dedication and passion to drive the success of For Rent Media Solutions,” says Judy Gogol, vice president of sales for the eastern region. “I am certain she will continue to build a very successful career with the company.”

Meisenheimer lives in Chicago and is expected to transition into her new role on January 1, 2007.

About For Rent Media SolutionsTM

Headquartered in Norfolk, VA, For Rent Media SolutionsTM is a division of Dominion Enterprises. As the multi-family housing solution for apartment seekers, property/apartment managers and owners, For Rent Media Solutions provides superior products, outstanding customer service, and tangible results.  For Rent Media Solutions is a leading resource for choosing your next apartment for rent, townhouse, condo, duplex, efficiency, studio or loft and provides a free customizable search from over 50,000 apartment listings nationwide.  For Rent Media Solutions operates For Rent Magazine®, as well as ForRent.comTM-The Magazine, and publishes 85 magazines covering more than 190 markets nationwide, including Senior Outlook®, Para Rentar®, Florida Condominium Sales and Rental Guide and Atlanta Townhome and Condominium Sales and Rental Guide.  For Rent Media Solutions operates five additional websites: ForRent.com®, SeniorOutlook.comTM, CorporateHousing.com®, ParaRentar.comTM and FLCondoGuide.com.  For Rent Media Solutions is a company dedicated to the needs of the apartment industry, bringing prospective residents and apartment communities together.

About Dominion Enterprises

Dominion Enterprises, headquartered in Norfolk, VA, is a leading media and information services company serving employment, real estate, recreation, and industrial markets in the United States.  The company has 503 paid and free magazine titles such as For Rent, Harmon Homes, The Employment Guide, Boat Trader, Cycle Trader and RV Trader with a combined weekly circulation of nearly 6 million; over 40 market-leading websites such as ForRent.com, Homes.com, and Traderonline.com reaching over 8 million monthly visitors; data capture and distribution businesses such as Dealer Specialties; and web services businesses across all the company’s industry categories.  The company has 6,600 employees nationwide and estimated 2006 annual revenue of $850 million.  For more information on Dominion Enterprises, visit http://www.dominionenterprises.com/.

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Posted: November 29th, 2006

NOV
16

For Rent Media SolutionsTM Partners with ESPRE Solutions and MDS, LLC., becoming the first apartment listing service to offer streaming video to clients

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Contact:
Wendy Froehlich
Marketing Director
  Wendy.Froehlich@forrent.com
Phone: 757-961-4695
Fax: 757-282-6015

 

For Rent Media SolutionsTM Partners with ESPRE Solutions and MDS, LLC., becoming the first apartment listing service to offer streaming video to clients

Norfolk, VA-(November 16, 2006) - For Rent Media SolutionsTM, a leading apartment resource for searching apartments for rent nationwide and a division of Dominion Enterprises, is excited to announce the launch of Community TheaterTM on their ForRent.com website.

ForRent.com, which lists over 50,000 apartments nationwide,  has been working closely with ESPRE solutions, a Dallas-based media solutions and technology company with a revolutionary and patented video compression technology, as well as MDS, a Dallas area video distribution company, to offer this new service to ForRent.com customers.

“At For Rent Media Solutions, we believe in marketing apartment communities through the combination of print and internet with cutting edge technology,” says Amanda Hiller, general manager of ForRent.com. “The ForRent.com website was recently chosen as a leading Internet Listing Service by readers of Multi-Housing News magazine. By offering Community Theater, a streaming video product, to ForRent.com customers, the site is creating the opportunity for property managers to generate more LEADSTM for their apartment community, keeping them ahead of their competition.”

The initial launch of Community Theater was in the Seattle market with a national roll-out starting today. Community Theater is a streaming video package that offers ForRent.com clients: streaming custom video for their community; which can be shown on the For Rent website as well as the management company’s site, professional voice over, production and editing, and a video e-mail brochure to send to prospects for follow up. This package is delivered through the ESPRE playerless player, which requires no video downloading.

“We are extremely excited to be a part of this launch with our partner MDS,” states Pete Ianace, president and CEO of ESPRE. “ForRent.com is one of the premier Internet Listing Services (ILS) for apartment communities and we are delighted to provide the core technology behind MDS’ unique, turnkey video virtual tour solutions.”

About For Rent Media SolutionsTM

Headquartered in Norfolk, VA, For Rent Media SolutionsTM is a division of Dominion Enterprises. As the multi-family housing solution for apartment seekers, property/apartment managers and owners, For Rent Media Solutions provides superior products, outstanding customer service, and tangible results.  For Rent Media Solutions is a leading resource for choosing your next apartment for rent, townhouse, condo, duplex, efficiency, studio or loft and provides a free customizable search from over 50,000 apartment listings nationwide.  For Rent Media Solutions operates For Rent Magazine®, as well as ForRent.comTM- The Magazine, and publishes 85 magazines covering more than 190 markets nationwide, as well as Senior Outlook®, Apartamentos Para Rentar®, Florida Condominium Sales and Rental Guide and Atlanta Town home and Condominium Sales and Rental Guide.  For Rent Media Solutions operates five additional websites: ForRent.com®, SeniorOutlook.comTM, CorporateHousing.com®, ParaRentar.comTM and FLCondoGuide.com.  For Rent Media Solutions is a company dedicated to the needs of the apartment industry, bringing prospective residents and apartment communities together.

About Dominion Enterprises

Dominion Enterprises, headquartered in Norfolk, VA, is a leading media and information services company serving employment, real estate, recreation, and industrial markets in the United States.  The company has 503 paid and free magazine titles such as For Rent, Harmon Homes, The Employment Guide, Boat Trader, Cycle Trader and RV Trader with a combined weekly circulation of nearly 6 million; over 40 market-leading websites such as ForRent.com, Homes.com, and Traderonline.com reaching over 8 million monthly visitors; data capture and distribution businesses such as Dealer Specialties; and web services businesses across all the company’s industry categories.  The company has 6,600 employees nationwide and estimated 2006 annual revenue of $850 million.  For more information on Dominion Enterprises, visit http://www.dominionenterprises.com/.

About MDS

MDS’s primary focus is to provide the first practical approach to allow any web application to take full advantage of video — both live and on- demand. Using our one-click video publishing technologies, any website can provide their users the power of live and streaming video for applications like classified advertising, online yellowpages, online dating services, on- demand feature length movies, video blogging, corporate sales and training. The MDS solution lets any website provide their end-users with simple methods to produce digital video presentations to show and sell products. MDS uses a wavelet-based compression system that is compatible with PC’s, Macs and Linux computers, requires no software installation, and provides superior quality and bandwidth management. The MDS system has integrated Digital Rights Management to ensure that content can’t be copied or distributed without the owner’s permission. And MDS videos are significantly smaller then Quicktime, WMV, MPEG or Flash at the same quality levels. For more information, visit http://www.bettervideo.com/ .

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Posted: November 16th, 2006

NOV
6

ForRent.com® wins Technology Choice Award by Multi-Housing News Magazine

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: 
Wendy Froehlich
Marketing Director
  Wendy.Froehlich@forrent.com
 Phone: 757-961-4695
Fax: 757-282-6015

ForRent.com® wins Technology Choice Award by Multi-Housing News Magazine

Magazine readers chose ForRent.com as a leading Internet Listing Service for 2006

Norfolk, VA-(November 6, 2006) - For Rent Media SolutionsTM, a leading apartment resource for searching apartment communities nationwide and a division of Dominion Enterprises, is proud to announce that ForRent.com has been chosen as a leading Internet Listing Service by the readers of Multi-Housing News Magazine.

“We are honored to be chosen as a recipient of the Technology Choice Awards,” says Amanda Hiller, general manager of ForRent.com.  ”This award is particularly impressive because votes came from the readers of Multi-Housing News magazine.  In an effort to make ForRent.com more user-friendly, we will continue to develop the functionality of our site.  I am sure these changes will put us in the running to be recognized as a 2007 Technology Choice Award recipient as well.”

According to the magazine, the Technology Choice Awards recognizes those organizations that stand apart from the rest and deserve to be celebrated as the industry’s very best.  Readers fill out a ballot and select the Internet Listing Service that best fits the criteria that is given; this category consisted of 11 different websites.

“We salute ForRent.com as a winner of the 2006 Technology Choice Awards,” says Patrick Brennan, publisher of Multi-Housing News Magazine.  ”They have earned the respect and admiration of some of the toughest critics-their audience. Our readers cast their votes by the thousands this summer to determine the top technology providers in the Internet Listing Service category.”

Winners of the Technology Choice Awards appeared in the October 2006 issue of Multi-Housing News Magazine.

About For Rent Media SolutionsTM

Headquartered in Norfolk, VA, For Rent Media SolutionsTM is a division of Dominion Enterprises.  As the multi-family housing solution for apartment seekers, property/apartment managers and owners, For Rent Media Solutions provides superior products, outstanding customer service, and tangible results.  For Rent Media Solutions is a leading resource for choosing your next apartment for rent, townhouse, condo, duplex, efficiency, studio or loft and provides a free customizable search from over 50,000 apartment listings nationwide.  For Rent Media Solutions operates For Rent Magazine®, as well as ForRent.comTM-The Magazine, and publishes 85 magazines covering more than 190 markets nationwide, as well as Senior Outlook®, Para Rentar®, Florida Condominium Sales and Rental Guide and Atlanta Townhome and Condominium Sales and Rental Guide.  For Rent Media Solutions operates five additional websites: ForRent.com®, SeniorOutlook.comTM, CorporateHousing.com® ParaRentar.comTM and FLCondoGuide.com.  For Rent Media Solutions is a company dedicated to the needs of the apartment industry, bringing prospective residents and apartment communities together.

About Dominion Enterprises

Dominion Enterprises, headquartered in Norfolk, VA, is a leading media and information services company serving employment, real estate, recreation, and industrial markets in the United States.  The company has 503 paid and free magazine titles such as For Rent, Harmon Homes, The Employment Guide, Boat Trader, Cycle Trader and RV Trader with a combined weekly circulation of nearly 6 million; over 40 market-leading websites such as ForRent.com, Homes.com, and Traderonline.com reaching over 8 million monthly visitors; data capture and distribution businesses such as Dealer Specialties; and web services businesses across all the company’s industry categories.  The company has 6,600 employees nationwide and estimated 2006 annual revenue of $850 million.  For more information on Dominion Enterprises, visit http://www.dominionenterprises.com/.

 

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Posted: November 6th, 2006