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It is a world wide real estate Have and Want information service. It is independently owned and operated by Gary Nusca, CCIM, AMP, real estate salesperson since 1972 and broker since 1974. The service was originally conceived in the early 1990's out of a CCIM chapter where marketing sessions were conducted to exchange Haves and Wants from real estate brokers and salespeople. It simply made it easier if all Have and Want information was collected and shared in one place in a simple format instead of trying to write everyone's down as fast as people were talking. This process helped match buyers and sellers very successfully. It started as an online Bulletin Board System with telephone lines where members could post their Haves and Wants. However this was before most knew how to work computers let alone have a modem, etc. This concept is what ICIWorld is all about. It was the first real estate information service on the Internet in 1994 as the Commercial Investment Bulletin Board System. (CIBBS) It evolved to the extent that it has now grown to a global scale with among the most success you will see of any real estate type Internet information exchange service of an independent company. It was recently incorporated in February 2, 2009 as ICIWorld.net, Inc. and has zero debt. The vision is to provide the most cost effective way in the world today to help real estate broker and salespeople help the public to connect with each other to do business in the most economical way in the world today. Today powers that were formerly reserved for governments and the Fortune 500 are now alive and working extremely well on ICIWorld as attested to by our statistics of people world wide accessing the database on a daily basis and the networking going on between the public and members. Database 1: Almost 1,000 Executive Members who comprise of licensed real estate brokers and salespeople in the USA and Canada. An Executive Membership in ICIWorld is with an annual nominal fee and is restricted in North America to licensed real estate brokers and salespeople. Others can join in other countries of the world until such time as there is organized real estate in their area. Haves and Wants appear world wide. The public contacts members directly. ICIWorld is not a real estate board type information service although it could be. It is more like classified ads in a newspaper where you can choose to place as much or as little information as you wish. There are business areas and categories as well as many ways to search and sort information. The public contacts the advertising real estate broker members directly. Brokers have unlimited ads for a nominal annual fee. Brokers maintain their own listing inventory of Haves and Wants on line themselves. The database is searchable in many simple and sophisticated ways by the public. The public has access to Active listings only. Expired, Inactive and Solds "contact information" can only be accessed by Executive Members and are maintained for networking purposes. Current Have and Want information is distributed by various EMail List Servers. This is once a day in active areas. The public may subscribe free. One can unsubscribe anytime directly from an email. Database2: Free for the public to place Have and Want information. Only Executive Members have access to the contact information. ICIWorld is an Internet based service. It is designed to be the lowest cost medium for advertising real estate Haves and Wants in the world today. We are friends with real estate boards. It is really in the family of real estate board services in the sense that we only allow licensed real estate brokers and salespeople to join. Our booth at real estate board trade shows is very active. Our database can easily be adopted by a real estate board to showcase their members Haves and Wants. Our FSBO area can only be accessed by the members who must be a licensed real estate broker or salesperson. It is designed to remove the high cost of advertising for real estate brokers and salespeople to help them find buyers and sellers on behalf of their prospects and clients. By providing a service that attracts attention and activity world wide it helps brokers and salespeople provide better services to the public than they can do for themselves. If membership were left open to anyone it would water down the effectiveness for all concerned and real estate brokers and salespeople would not support it. Why should a broker or salesperson support a service where the public can advertise directly to the public. It effectively cuts out the broker. This service is then the bread and butter for all licensed real estate brokers and salespeople in the world. Exit Strategy As an independent service we have many options:
Today thanks to all the members it has grown to one of the largest independent ad services on the Internet generating leads for thousands. Real estate brokers and salespeople have not had the time to study the Internet for fifteen years like we have. Yet it is the greatest marketing medium known to man. It requires know how to make good use of it. ICIWorld is dedicated to continue to provide that know how, to licensed real estate brokers and salespeople. With technology one can lower costs while increasing revenue through increasing your networking abilities. It truly is the Power to Connect. |
