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TORRANCE, Calif., February 4, 2003 - LiveOffice Corporation, a leading provider of web-based tools for small businesses, announced today that 1st Choice Vacation Rentals, a leader in the online vacation rental industry, has been named a LiveSiteManager Certified Partner.

LiveSiteManager provides a personal touch for visitors navigating 1st Choice Vacation Rentals’ web site, www.choice1.com. Using LiveOffice’s LiveSiteManager technology, 1st Choice’s visitors can click on the “Live Help” button and instantly begin a chat session. For a low monthly fee, property owners using the real-time chat function can answer any visitor questions, advise on property availability or assist with site navigation.

1st Choice hosts thousands of vacation property listings and receives as many as 15,000 visitors per day. The web site regularly achieves top ranking with several search engines and attracts more than 400,000 qualified travelers to the site each month. In addition to its online listings, 1st Choice Vacation Rentals also provides web development, advertising and marketing services to vacation property owners around the world.

“1st Choice is constantly evaluating new technologies that can increase the value of our online property listings. LiveOffice’s LiveSiteManager exceeded our evaluation criteria and made it the obvious choice to power the real-time customer support functionality we wanted.” said Tracy Lotz, president and founder, for 1st Choice Vacation Rentals. “LiveSiteManager provides our customers with a personalized web presence that will help them increase traffic to their listings and turn browsers into renters.”

“LiveSiteManager gives businesses of all sizes, as well as individual users, affordable access to real-time technology that previously was only available to Fortune 500-level companies with custom-built web sites and large IT budgets,” said Andy Estep, vice president of business development for LiveOffice Corp. “We are pleased to add 1st Choice to our LiveSiteManager Certified Partner roster. 1st Choice’s vast listings of vacation rental properties combined with LiveSiteManager’s Live Help’ capabilities will add a personal touch to each traveler’s search for the ideal vacation rental property.”