ICIWORLD GLOBAL REAL ESTATE NETWORKING
Turn YOUR Real Estate Website Into a Global Lead-Generation and Networking Service
Give Your Visitors More Than MLS®
Add ICIWorld IDX Links, commonly called “Exclusives”, and display a searchable network of properties, businesses, buyers, sellers, Haves and Wants on your own website.
Your visitors search. They find opportunities. They contact YOU for more information.
A Global Network With Reported Results
Since 1994 • 2,000+ Broker Websites Reported Using IDX Links • Over $1 Billion in Member-Reported Sales
Members have reported transactions, referrals and business relationships arising from networking information through ICIWorld. Individual results vary.
1. MLS® + ILS: Two Ways to Serve Your Customers
Most real estate professionals are familiar with marketing properties through MLS®. ICIWorld provides an additional way to network real estate information through an Information Listing Service (ILS).
MLS® — Market Listed Properties
Help buyers and sellers access properties marketed through participating real estate board MLS systems.
ICIWorld ILS — Network Haves and Wants
Give customers access to additional listings, confidential networking opportunities, buyer acquisition requirements, leasing needs and other professional real estate information, including opportunities not on MLS®.
Haves are properties, businesses or other real estate opportunities available for sale or lease.
Wants represent buyers and investors looking to purchase, or people and businesses looking to lease space.
ICIWorld reports that approximately 75% of its opportunities are not on MLS®. Availability and the proportion of exclusive opportunities can change.
Why offer only one source of information when you can offer both?
2. What ICIWorld IDX Links Can Do for YOUR Website
✔ Generate Inquiries: Visitors interested in an opportunity can request more information through your website, with member inquiry routing designed to send those inquiries to you.
✔ Demonstrate Buyer Demand: Show owners searchable buyer requirements for the type of property or business they may want to sell.
✔ Offer Additional Inventory: Present commercial, industrial, investment, land, business and eligible residential opportunities.
✔ Encourage Referrals: Connect with other licensed professionals when an inquiry is outside your specialty or location.
✔ Keep Your Website Current: IDX content updates automatically from the underlying ICIWorld information, reducing the need to manually republish database entries.
✔ Expand Your Reach: Benefit from Have-and-Want information contributed by participating brokers and salespeople.
✔ Give Customers a Reason to Return: New opportunities and searches can encourage visitors to check your website repeatedly.
Think of it as having a searchable collection of real estate classified advertisements on YOUR website, connected to a professional networking service.
3. Imagine These Conversations
An Apartment Building Owner
An owner asks, “Why should I list my apartment building with you?”
Instead of simply describing your marketing plan, open your website and search for Wants — buyers looking for apartment buildings.
Imagine demonstrating dozens, or potentially over 100, relevant buyer requirements in the network, depending on current inventory and search criteria.
That is a different listing presentation. You are demonstrating access to buyer information instead of merely promising to find buyers.
A Restaurant Owner
You are speaking with a restaurant owner who might consider selling for the right price.
How many other real estate salespeople does that owner know?
Now imagine showing restaurant-related Haves and Wants, including opportunities and buyer requirements available through ICIWorld.
Your networking resources can help distinguish you from competing salespeople.
A Customer Looking for Investment Property
A customer asks, “Do you have any shopping centres, hotels, industrial properties, land or business opportunities?”
You can say:
“Visit my website and click on Exclusives. Search the opportunities available through my network. If something interests you, contact me and I will help.”
That conversation might lead to a showing, representation agreement, referral, listing or business relationship.
Database counts and listings change. Confirm that buyers, sellers and opportunities remain active and qualified before making representations to clients.
4. Residential Brokers: You May Be Missing Commercial Referral Opportunities
One of the biggest opportunities is something many residential salespeople overlook.
You do not have to become a commercial specialist to recognize a potential commercial real estate or business opportunity.
ONE SIMPLE QUESTION
“Would you consider selling for the right price?”
Ask a dentist, restaurant owner, business operator, investor or property owner when appropriate.
If they express interest, you may be able to connect them with a qualified commercial broker through ICIWorld.
That opportunity could become a referral, a cooperative transaction or a direct transaction where permitted by your licence, brokerage and applicable rules.
Residential agents, commercial brokers, part-time salespeople and retiring professionals can all benefit from making the right connections.
Referral arrangements and compensation must be agreed upon and handled through the appropriate brokerage procedures. No particular commission is guaranteed.
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5. What If Every Customer Had YOUR Website on Their Mobile Phone?
Here’s another marketing opportunity.
Imagine that every willing customer in your CRM had a shortcut to your real estate website on their phone’s Home Screen.
Instead of searching for your business card or forgetting your telephone number, they could open your website with one tap.
And if you have ICIWorld IDX Links installed, they have another reason to return regularly: searchable real estate Haves and Wants.
Your Website Shortcut Helps Customers Find YOU. Your ICIWorld IDX Links Help YOU Connect Them With Opportunities.
Show customers how to add your website to their Home Screen, and continue following up with them through your normal CRM relationship-building activities.
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6. See Real Websites Using ICIWorld IDX Links
ICIWorld reports that more than 2,000 brokers have installed IDX links on their websites.
Explore sample websites and look for a menu item called “Exclusives”, “Commercial” or a similar name.
Explore the Sample Websites
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Sample websites are operated by their respective owners. Design, availability and menu labels may change.
Three Things to Test
Test 1: Search for a property type such as apartment buildings, restaurants, hotels or shopping centres.
Test 2: Find buyer Wants or investor requirements for that type of property.
Test 3: Examine how visitors can request further information through the member’s website.
Then imagine having these capabilities on YOUR own website.
7. Installation Is Simple — We Help You
STEP 1 — Join or Log In
ICIWorld IDX Links are included as a membership service for eligible members.
STEP 2 — Request Your IDX Links
We provide the installation instructions for you and your website company.
STEP 3 — Add “Exclusives” to Your Website
Your website designer adds the appropriate IDX links to your menu or webpage.
STEP 4 — Start Demonstrating the Network
Show prospects how to search Haves and Wants. Use the information for listing presentations, buyer discussions and referral networking.
STEP 5 — Keep Your Opportunities Updated
Post your own Haves and Wants, follow up on inquiries, and update your information regularly.
Many website companies install the links without an extra charge. If your website company cannot help, ask about ICIWorld’s installation assistance, including the currently advertised $45 one-time installation option.
8. An Affordable Way to Put Global Networking on Your Website
Try ICIWorld for $30 Month-to-Month
Or choose the introductory offer for eligible new members:
$240 for 15 Months
Equivalent to approximately $16 per month.
Your membership includes IDX links along with other ICIWorld membership services.
Members also receive access to the Corporate VIP Discount Card, which may help offset membership costs through qualifying purchases and services.
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Offers and eligibility are subject to current membership terms. Check the joining page for renewal pricing and applicable conditions.
9. We Want Our Members to Succeed — Our Pledge
ICIWorld was developed to help licensed real estate brokers and salespeople make meaningful professional connections and generate business.
Our pledge encourages members not to go longer than 90 days without doing a deal, generating a referral or, at minimum, developing a good business relationship.
If you are not seeing results, make an appointment and give us an opportunity to help you use the service more effectively.
Professional Networking and Consumer Protection
All members remain responsible for applicable licensing laws, brokerage requirements, representation agreements, owner consent, privacy rules and MLS-related marketing policies.
Confidential Have-and-Want networking is not permission to disclose identifying property information without proper authority. Residential public-marketing rules may differ from those applying to commercial or other property types, and local exceptions and requirements must be checked.
ICIWorld is designed to support professional networking, not replace the agreements, verification and due diligence required to complete a transaction.
Your Next Lead Could Come From Your Own Website
Why not give your customers access to MLS® AND ICIWorld’s global Information Listing Service?
We will help you understand the technology, demonstrate the database and explain how your website can become a more useful networking resource.
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Questions? Call 416-214-4875
Let ICIWorld do the work for you — networking 24/7 locally and globally.
The ICIWorld Association of Real Estate Brokers and Salespeople • Global Real Estate Networking Since 1994