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June/2004 While it might seem contradictory, we actually try to reduce the hits on the site while increasing circulation using EMail. This does two things: 1. reduce demands on the service 2. increase real time delivery of Have and Want information. Everyone interested, should subscribe to receive Email of the Haves and Wants by Email.  Database 1 is have and want information placed by brokers and salespeople.  It is free to receive by Email; subscribe here. One can unsubscribe anytime directly from the EMail. You are dealing direct with a computer. It is also easy to get bounced off these lists due to problems in delivery. If you stop receiving email one day, you must re subscribe yourself.

One developer has done three deals directly from contacts he has made from the EMail that he receives once per day.  He only visits the web site once in a while.  

Members should print out the stats for May for instance because it is that last complete month, and use them in their listing presentations. It demonstrates the marketing to people from over 100 countries of the world. Other companies may be on the Internet but none have the exposure that our members have and the statistics demonstrate that. The stats are not clouded by residential real estate.

May/2004 Readership from over 100 countries. When you add a Have or Want it automatically and instantly appears on over 8,000 pages throughout the world. In addition, it automatically and instantly gets sent out to the industry world wide by way of EMail. There are over 10,000 EMails that deliver information daily to the public. The readership is over 1,000,000 hits per month from over 100 countries of the world. Is is worth it for your time? Read the testimonials. ICIWorld is a world registry of Haves and Wants in real estate and we invite you to participate and do some business.

[Members can now print out April statistics in color and use them in their listing presentations all year long.]

April/2004 Hits shows readership. There were over 1,200,000 hits and this shows readership of people from over 100 countries.  And it is for commercial real estate not residential real estate that could cloud the results. The more people who network Haves and Wants, the more opportunities are created for everyone.  Members should print out one months statistics in color and point out how many hits in total, how many average per hour, as many as xxx in one hour, etc. Show daily totals and times of the day and most of all show the readership from people from over 100 countries. Not bad for .67 cents per day for all your advertising all year long. 

March/2004 Statistics are important because it shows traffic and growth. You can have a business in a major city but if it is on a side street no one can find you.  You need to be in the regional shopping mall and ICIWorld is a shopping mall of commercial real estate activity. We do not cloud our statistics with residential homes, or advertising banners popping up. This service is strictly industrial, commercial and investment real estate, land, farms, business opportunities and financing and is pure in that sense.

Every residential and commercial broker should place a link on their home page to this have and want information because it helps the public in a way that is compatible with organized real estate. It is like having the newspaper classified ads of the world, all on your home page in a way that you get the calls. See sample home pages with links. It can do nothing but provide leads for you that generate business.

To be in the top 20 in every major search engine in the world is a major accomplishment considering there are over 5,000,000 results when you search. Every member gets the benefit of this traffic. And in commercial real estate in only takes one very good contact to make a lot of money. Everyone should read among the most testimonials of any service on the Internet. All members should do business, it is just a matter of when.

February/2004 Members should print out January/2004 statistics in color and use them in your listing presentations. Show how you reach over 90 countries of the world. Show the volume of readership.

And mention the readership is actually higher because we also send out over 10,000 Emails daily to the public of your listings, to many people who do not even visit the web site. One developer has purchased three properties, directly by contacting brokers through the emails.  He does not visit the web site much at all.

And also to help you have a powerful listing presentation, print out a list of buyers. You literally can pick up the phone in many cases and make an appointment to show a property!

January/2004 Over 1,000,000 hits per month, demonstrating readership and activity. The statistics actually are much higher in terms of readership.  The reason? Because many of the people networking, do deals from the EMail that they receive once per day.

There are over 10,000 EMails delivering information daily to the public. Some do not visit any of our web sites much at all.  They do all their deals right from the email that they receive daily. It is free for the public to subscribe to receive the Haves and Wants from Database 1. Most choose the DIGEST which is one email per day with any new listings for day. One developer has done three deals right from the emails. There are four ways to make a connection for your next deal.  You miss one, and you could be missing doing a deal and not even know it.

The public expressed their appreciation of the service at the recent Financial Forum.  At our booth at the show, they placed over 50 Haves and Wants in Database 2. Our speaking engagement involved speaking about the fact that although the stock market has lost trillions of dollars since 2000, 97 out of every 100 self made millionaires made it in real estate and indeed home values in North America rose over $1 Trillion during the same time. Our real estate industry, brokers and salespeople can learn a lot from the stockbrokers of the world and for investment dollars that may be our real competition in the marketplace.

December/2003 This is perhaps the busiest month of all. Over 15,000 people will be walking by our booth at the Metro Toronto Convention Center booth #2037. PM Expo. In addition ICIWorld was a media sponsor of the CCIM event in conjuntion with the National Commercial Realtor Day.

November/2003 Record hits in one day - 73,000! This demonstrates activity! From 50-130 new haves and wants per day are being added. There are now over 13,000 Haves and Wants placed by the public and licensed real estate brokers and salespeople. There are over 8,000 pages on the Internet that penetrate the farthest reaches of the Internet and that link to information on ICIWorld. Over 10,000 EMails deliver information daily to the industry.  This generates business for you.

You can add 13,000 have and want opportunities to your home page in five minutes with one button. Details. This generates leads from your home page to you.

October/2003 ICIWorld is also at or near the top of every major search engine of the world. This helps people who have home pages but can not be at the top when there are over 4,000,000 results. People find ICIWorld quickly, and then just as quickly find a member's information, where they can contact the member directly. That is why so many members sell the properties themselves.

If you have a home page and a statistical program to track where the hits come from on your home page, you will find ICIWorld supplies a large volume of hits to your web site, provided that you have placed Haves and Wants on ICIWorld.  These are leads and customers who are interested in doing business with you.

And if you do not have a home page, we will show you how to have a professional home page absolutely free and hosted free and with special links that can generate leads for you the minute it is up and running.  This can all be done in an hour!  We will show you samples. When you join, it is as if you are hiring us as a personal marketing and information assistant to you personally.  We will help you make money.

September/2003 This is among the highest traffic sites and the most productive of any web site on the Internet for people who use it properly. With over 8,000 pages on the Internet, it has penetrated the farthest reaches of the Internet. It helps you connect with people who you can do deals with.

August/2003 A unique fact about ICIWorld's statistics is that they are not mixed with residential stats.  We do not do single family homes or cottages.  You will find this service is uniquely industrial, commercial and investment real estate, land, farms, business opportunities, etc. The statistics fairly represent the commercial industry, including flunctuations based on times of day, holidays, weekends which fairly reflect the habits of the people in the industry.  They are not mixed with residential stats. Just one extra buyer can make a big difference to your bottom line this year. There is a whole world of people, a community of people who are utilizing this cutting edge service to network.

You will also notice there are no flashing annoying banner ads or pop ups. When you subscribe to receive Haves and Wants by EMail (free service) there are no pop up ads or flashing banner ads when you choose our direct email list service.  We also have free email list services from Yahoo but they do contain banner ads and pop up ads as part of Yahoo's service.

In order to receive the private FSBO area Haves and Wants, one needs to buy an membership (cost and who can join) To see the Haves and Wants placed by the public, search Database 2.

July/2003 More and more people subscribe to receive Haves and Wants by EMail. The most popular list is the DIGEST for a State or Province.  It is an excellent starting place.  You will be subscribing directly from a computer and you can unsubscribe from receiving it at anytime. Go to www.iciworld.net and click on Free Haves and Wants by EMail. There are over 10,000 EMails delivering information daily to the public.

One reason licensed real estate people join ICIWorld is for the exposure. The number of hits is not an exact number but it certainly does show activity. Receiving 3/4 of a million to a million hits per month is a large sign of activity.

Most all web sites in the world in commercial real estate do not receive anywhere near these numbers nor do they distribute information to the industry world wide in such large numbers.

We recommend all people in real estate add their haves and wants here on ICIWorld and with the links that are in your listings on ICIWorld, people world wide can click on them and they are immediately taken to your web site. 

Members who track where their hits come from, find that a good percentage come from ICIWorld making their annual $240 fee seem like a pittance.

One deal in commercial real estate can make one from $10,000 for a referral to $25,000 to $50,000 and more. We have members who have made over $500,000.  You only have to read the testimonials to see the action that every single member should receive.

June/2003 Statistics represents access to this service.  Keep in mind there are over 8,000 pages on the Internet that link to ICIWorld.  ICIWorld is also at or near the top in every major search engine of the world in one way or another out of millions of results!

It demonstrates how easy it is for people absolutely anywhere in the world can access this service.  Once people access this service they can come back time and time again to check new listings, new haves and wants, for their area.  In a sense it is building a community of people interested in all aspects of commercial real estate.  As time goes on it makes it easier for everyone in the world to know that there is one place in the world where everyone's haves and wants can be networked.

It is also important that the industry realize that registered real estate brokers and salespeople are best positioned to source, collect, manage and distribute this information for the efficient market networking of information. And secondly that it is the public who we serve.  It is where we derive our income and for whom when we provide great services and results for them we can be rewarded. 

Every broker and salesperson has stories on how they have helped people create a lot of wealth through real estate.  Real estate professionals have knowledge and experience to see how this is done in the real estate business and they share this generously with the people who give them a chance. 

Commercial real estate provides opportunities for residential brokers and commercial brokers because they are both licensed to trade in real estate information. In the case of residential brokers, they can choose to refer their information to commercial brokers when appropriate. There is so much information that is so valuable in everyone's marketplace there simply is a major need.

We believe there is three times as much information and business opportunities available to be worked in everyone's marketplace than can be worked on real estate board internet type listing services. 

ICIWorld then in that sense complements what real estate people do by providing other additional opportunities to serve the public in addition to how they do it on real estate boards.

We provide virtual consulting services in your office over the phone while you are on the Internet to teach how this is being done successfully every day. It is in the form of a one hour session provided to every new licensed real estate broker and salesperson who joins. You can be started in as little as five minutes by joining now.  We will help you every step of the way to learn.

May/2003 Statistics for the month of May from May 1 to May 15, 2003 were lost accidentally and although we could get them back it would simply be too costly. They are not Haves and Wants which is the gold on this network. Cost versus benefits and we decided it is not necessary at this time.  There are lots of other stats to go by and stats are continuing.

April/2003 | 975,000 hits | from 69,000 unique sites | an average of 1354 hits per hour | 32,000 hits per day | over 96 countries of the world. Why do statistics on ICIWorld continue to grow? Because people want information and our members are giving it to them. Information is the gold on the Internet.

1. There are more people getting on the Internet.

2. There are more people finding ICIWorld in many ways.

3. There are more people learning how to use their computer and software.

4. Computer software companies are making it easier and easier all the time.

5. Convenience to be on line anytime.

6. Cataloguing of information in databases.

7. Free EMail List Services that deliver Haves and Wants by EMail to the public Free.

8. Education

9. Marketing

10. Networking
    
    ICIWorld is in all the top search engines of the world.  Out of millions of responses ICIWorld consistently turns up in the top 20, top 10 top 5. Where we are not number 1 or 2, the ones that are have us listed in their links.  This means anyone in the world including your area, can search the words commercial real estate for instance, find ICIWorld fairly quickly, search for property in your area and find you, all within a few clicks!

March/2003 There are four main reasons why licensed real estate brokers and salespeople may want to join ICIWorld some are statistically important.

1. The exposure that is built from over ten years on the Internet.

2. Access to the private FSBO Area

3. Technical ability to add 10,000 listings to ones home page with one button. This can generate leads immediately.

4. Ability to work information not just listings.

Statistics demonstrates exposure, activity, people, business, interactivity, connections to do deals. 

February/2003 Much like a farmer who is harvesting his crop, at the same time he is planting seeds for future growth, you too should be planting seeds of growth by placing your Haves and Wants on ICIWorld. It is free for the public and only $240 per year for licensed real estate brokers and salespeople. See Cost.

January/2003 Statistics of readership continue to increase. We make these statistics public because it is traffic that is important to helping you make a contact that can lead to doing business. This is a major site in the world where visitors learn very quickly it is worth checking in regularly because there is so much new information coming in regularly. To keep in touch one should subscribe to our Free EMail of Haves and Wants by State/Province and we suggest use the Digest Method. That is a maximum of one email per day if and only if there are haves and wants that become available.

New members find this is like a gold mine. They will be the contact person for business in their area the moment they join. The number of Referrals is also growing.

Statistics do not include the EMails that are distributed daily by our servers in San Jose California.  There are over 10,000 EMails that distribute information to the public daily. The moment a Have or Want is added to the service by an Executive Member, it is automatically and instantly, emailed out to the industry to the appropriate list service, by way of over 180 EMail list servers.

When you place a Want for instance, you can select the exact states, regions so that an EMail goes out to that list service.  It is free for everyone in the world to subscribe to these list services. Choosing the Digest Method ensures you only receive one email per day, if and only when something becomes available. You can unsubscribe anytime directly from the EMail. Subscribe for your state/province now.

December/2002 This month will see the introduction of the Database on CD Rom and sold at major conferences, conventions, etc. In fact we can have all your companies, organization, association, listings placed on CD Rom and shipped to you for distribution. You simply have your members join ICIWorld, and select the organization they belong to.  You can see their listings anytime.  See Introducing Group Networking The ICIWorld Search Matrix page for your Real Estate Board, Group, Company, ICI Council, Overlay Board, Commercial Division, Chapter, and more!

November/2002 This is highest statistics since 1994, another record setting month with record days, record number of unique visitors, record number of hits, etc.

There are several contributing factors:

• greater knowledge of the internet by the public and the industry, 

• the amount and quality of information being provided by Executive Members,

• the amount and quality of information being placed by the public in the Free FSBO Area,

• the contacts being made, and deals being done,

• the level of expertise on behalf of the public and members to use computers and the Internet continues to increase,

• the exposure is increasing dramatically through many methods that we employ,

• there are over 10,000 EMails distributing information daily.

• it is free to receive the Haves and Wants by email,

• there are over 8,000 pages throughout the internet linking to various ICIWorld web sites and the information.

• the fast response times on searches (averaging 4.9 seconds)

The power of the Internet is at work here. It is information that is important on the Internet and ICIWorld is the platform for brokers and salespeople to network their information with the public, and the public to network their information free to the world filtered through the licensed real estate brokerage community.

The basic system is a very robust database on high speed dependable servers in San Jose, California designed by an engineer formally with the Nortel Corporation. It is designed to handle the traffic of information and people for the foreseeable future and is planned to migrate someday to the ultimate database on the Internet, Oracle.

The President of Microsoft in Canada has stated "that the first phase of the Internet may be coming to an end, but that the second phase over the next years may be more significant than the invention of electricity itself." In a sense it is like building new connections for new communities to be built.  The connections are all there and now it is up to the organized real estate industry to put it to good use to serve the public.

In our opinion it is not just a matter of getting a computer, but also learning how to use it.  It is a matter of understanding how to use it as an effective business information tool.  In commercial real estate, information can make one a lot of money.

Another reason for growth, is that open and exclusive type information can be worked quite nicely. In the past, open and exclusive type listing information was not advertised in a newspaper widely because it cost money to place it in a newspaper and why would a broker spend money in a newspaper to network open listing type information when the owner of the property would not even give him a listing in the first place. And it was a matter of control.

Today the monetary restriction, the cost of newspaper ads, is removed.  At $240 per year we do not have people complaining about the cost. In fact we have had many people say "is that per month?"  ICIWorld in one respect is like an electronic equivalent of classified ads in a newspaper but to a market of over 600,000,000 people. The $240 per year cost also weeds out the casual real estate person who is not serious. This can also be a benefit over some free services that are on the internet as there can be a lot of time wasted on the lack of quality information and how it is worked.

Organized real estate is in the best position to identify, collect and distribute information for the whole industry to make it very efficient. This service it putting all those concepts together resulting in many very happy and satisfied customers. 

More important than the listings are the people behind the service, the prospects and clients, the members. Many deals occur when someone calls on one ad that they find they are not interested in, the parties discuss something else not on the service, develop a business relationship, and go off and do a deal. These contacts remain with you for a lifetime, and every member has started his/her own here.

October/2002 Now over 500,00 hits per month for the first time!  Another record setting month!  The stats continue to grow ever since 1994 when this service started. ICIWorld continues to earn the trust, faith and respect of the commercial real estate community to provide this world service. This is a credit to the licensed real estate brokers and salespeople who have taken a "leap of faith" with their time and money to learn how to make this "cutting edge technology" work for them in their marketplace.  And of course the public who are using it in bigger numbers every day. In commercial real estate buyers for instance can be buyers for life for the right product when it comes along. It is necessary to update this buying information every 30-60 days as we see the majority of deals take place at the top half of the database. This is because people simply get so busy working the top half of the database they do not even get down to the bottom and secondly, when the information is updated, it is EMailed out to the industry by way of EMail List Services. New people are signing up for these services all the time.

The stats on this service reflect the habits of people who are interested in some aspect of commercial real estate.  ICIWorld does not deal in anything else, not even residential real estate. It mirrors the activities in the commercial real estate marketplace including the habits of the people in commercial real estate community. You can see the weekends and the numbers go down.  You will see the times of the day when people are most active.  It is like one big office and every one inter-reacting. It is like a 24 hour per day marketing session. We are always concerned about the future volume overloading things and slowing things down and for that reason delivering information by Email is also very helpful.  Thousands of people receive all their information by Email and do not even visit the web site! So the stats are really quite higher in terms of numbers of people who actually are interested in some aspect of commercial real estate.

We invite all licensed real estate people world wide to step into a training session and learn how to apply concepts that are the difference between generating and doing deals and not doing deals using the Internet, your computer and information technology. This is a very unique service for your market place. Testimonials. Contact us anytime for a demo and we can have you going within five minutes. Details to advertise.

September/2002

• We now have participation from people in Japan to The Czech Republic to Brazil, Australia and 70 more countries in addition to the USA and Canada. Our phone lines are very clear when speaking to people from around the world.  It is as if everyone is in an office, just around the corner from us.

• Internet network outages in the North Eastern USA caused intermittent disruption of service for three days to certain parts of the world. All of this was temporary however and things are back to normal. 

• Additionally some of our largest Yahoo List Services are curtailed and are now replaced with other services.  You could say we are the victim of success.  Yahoo places limits on the amount of mail per list service and we reached a limit and the service stopped. (number of messages within a 20 minute period being delivered to our very large lists)

• We have instituted what we call ICIWorld's Direct EMail List Service that is now in working for the world in place of the services that are curtailed at Yahoo. It is an NT server and we are beefing up the connection.  The mailing software has also been updated by a programmer in Montreal.

• Everyone can subscribe/unsubscribe free from these services here.

• What is interesting this month is the number of unique viewers while the number of hits I think are lower.  People are learning how to jump into the database and get the information that they need.  Also many people do all their deals from the EMails that they receive with one developer reporting three deals that he has done, contacting members directly from the EMails.  They are free to the public to subscribe to.  There are many choices to suit the way you do business. Go to http://www.iciworld.net and click on Subscribe/Unsubscribe Free.

August/2002 One contact in this business can make one a lot of money and when you think about the number of people you can reach all year long for only $240, it is incredible. It is the power of the Internet at work for you. Why do people in commercial real estate need it?   There are over 1 billion web pages on the Internet. People can not go to every web site to find a property.  This web site was built to help people search a database of properties world wide and link to the individual web sites for more information and to make contact. People search for the information that they want and when they find it, they call you if you are the one who placed it! It is working very smoothly.  It is free to the public and is supported by the real estate brokers and salespeople of the world. It is the fastest and easiest way to make connections in the world today. You do not need to buy a lottery ticket to make $50,000, just work your information and contacts made through ICIWorld.  You benefit the public when you do. See Testimonials.

July/2002 July and August are two big holiday months. Many members are traveling. I personally enjoy traveling but my mind does not shut completely off.  I mark down phone numbers of signs along the way of properties that are for sale and for lease by developers and owners. These are all opportunities to make $10,000 to $40,000 and more.  The money made can help  you go on more holidays. Ask these owners three questions: 1. will they pay a commission if you bring the buyer or tenant; 2. will they cover your showing with a forty-eight hour exclusive listing; 3. ask for permission to place the information on ICIWorld, the worlds largest commercial real estate information service (as distinguished from a listing service like a real estate board) One connection and one showing can make one a lot of money.  Every single for sale by owner property is an opportunity to be of service.  Help them . . . and help yourself. If you are not a member now you should be.  Where else can you have an opportunity to make $500,000 as some of our members have made and only cost you $240 for one year!  Subscribe and place all your information now and get ready to do business. See testimonials.

June/2002 Statistics continue to grow.  We are now rolling out the ability for every member to have two databases on their home page, 6,000 broker placed Haves and Wants, and 4,000 privately placed haves and wants by the public in the FREE FSBO Area! To see how this works click here, link to thousands.

May/2002 There is a one day record set on May 2 of over 34,000 hits! Over 70 countries of the world, over 400,000 hits per month.  The readership is here, it is just up to you to place your information.

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Another Record Setting Month! May we suggest you print out the following statistics and use them in your listing presentations. 

January/2002 Another record setting month with over 15,000 unique viewers, over 400,000 hits, from 79 countries of the world! This does not count the extensive distribution and circulation to every part of the world by way of our EMail List Distribution Systems. 

If we said ten years ago that you could advertise to over 70 countries of the world, it would have taken tens of thousands of dollars.  Today this is one of only a few sites getting this many hits for this kind of information and in fact it is the only site in the world that works open and exclusive type listing opportunities in a manner compatible with how organized real estate conducts business.  See Information.

Highest and best price. By definition the highest and best price is obtained through maximum exposure in the market place.  This helps to achieve that objective.  We publish statistics to illustrate this exposure.  

Powerful listing presentations.  We suggest member brokers print the previous full month statistics in color and use it in listing presentations. It is a very powerful tool.  For instance, when you go on a listing presentation, other competing brokers will say they are on the Internet.  I suggest to you that how broker members of  ICIWorld are on the Internet is significantly different and the statistics demonstrate it bigtime.  Print out the January Statistics in Color!  Point out the hits, the unique viewers, the monthly hits, the hourly hits and then point out the countries of the world that are reaching your information!!!  

This demonstrates the the highest level of readership by the public for commercial real estate information in the world.  Many other brokers have not even heard of the service yet.  Many brokers in your community are not even on the service yet!  You have a major lead time opportunity to work information in your marketplace that no one else is doing yet!

Many other sites do not publish their statistics because they may be getting only a few thousand hits per month yet they may have a site that could win awards in a design contest. I suggest it is the traffic on a site that is important and ICIWorld has among the highest traffic on the Internet for people who deal in commercial real estate.  ICIWorldwas the first on the Internet in the mid 90's and continues to develop innovative concepts to help brokers world wide.  This makes it easier for people to make connections and that is why we are hearing about deals daily.  

 Without this exposure one is missing doing deals and does not even know it.  Let us help you learn how to take full advantage of the Internet. Join today.  

December/2001 Look for the unique sites . .  . it is over 10,000!  There is continued interest with over 300,000 hits again this month.  And we think this is just the beginning.  As the Internet gets on TV's throughout the world the readership just keeps getting more and more, there are more and more connections to do deals.  It is really quite incredible.  You should get started now and learn your responsibility in this information business.  A major  developer recently said at a meeting that it is the information that brokers possess that is value to him.  We teach you how to handle information in the commercial real estate business to benefit your clients and prospects in YOUR market.  Take advantage of our education program.  Join today.

We do not have total stats on the extensive world wide mailing lists, list services, news groups, professional groups, internal mailing lists, etc.  Yes we know our own databases of over 14,000.  However the connections through all the other services that we know about are quite extensive.  One email address in our database goes to a list service that reaches thousands.  When a member places a Have or Want, not only does it go to the top of a database receiving over 300,000 hits per month, but instantly and automatically it is emailed out to the industry with the most sophisticated emailing programs and services in the world.  They are made for the world. We continue to develop them to serve the industry.  For instance the latest addition is a mailing service for properties $3,000,000 and up.  Everyone interested in ICI Real Estate in the world should be subscribing to a mailing list that serves them information that can make them money.   Click on Subscribe/Unsubscribe Free from the Main Page.  These are tools that everyone in the industry should learn to use properly.    If you have space for lease, wouldn't it be important to know about a tenant looking for space?  You can subscribe to these kinds of services . . . free.

November/2001  Think of the service as a commercial real estate Shopping Mall on the Internet that brings traffic for all the information.  The public is only one click or phone call away  from contacting a member.  ICIWorld is designed to collect and distribute Haves and Wants world wide for every area on earth.   The importance is that there is readership from virtually every area on earth for listings on this service.  It now becomes the responsibility of real estate brokers and salespeople to place their information in an effective manner for their area so that people can contact them.  To also determine activity in different areas, please see the limited view of privately placed haves and wants on this service.

Members are reporting 1-2 deals per day and that is conservative because many just delete their listings.   Another important factor to recognize is that it is the people behind the service that is important.  Many call on one ad that may not suit them, discuss something else not on the service, and go off and do a deal.  It is contacts that lead to developing relationships that leads to doing deals.  There are literally over 10,000 unique viewers monthly any one of which can connect with you to do a deal.  It is only $240 per year for real estate brokers to place all their listings all year long to a market of over 400,000,000 people.  It still amazes all of us how the internet has changed the opportunities in the marketplace and we at ICIWorld are happy to help you be on the leading edge as we have for the last ten years.  We have no debt and believe we may be the only company that is making money with no debt on the internet for commercial real estate and . . . it continues to grow from the ground up one broker and salesperson at a time rather than highly financed from the top down.  There are now several hundred broker members world wide placing an average of one hundred haves and wants per day and these listings are distributed automatically to principals world wide.  The public can subscribe and unsubscribe here now for free here.  The public can also place information absolutely free here. This information is distributed to broker members.

October/2001 Statistics were stopped temporarily October 27, 2001 when we changed over to a new server.  But again there were over a quarter of a million hits in the month with again about 10,000 unique viewers.  The numbers are conservative because many people receive all their information from one of our EMail List Servers.  The only other services that have these many hits are real estate board type services.  There are no other services like this service in terms of being able to work open and exclusive type listing opportunities, buyers, tenants looking for space, as well as real estate board type listings, etc. This provides for opportunities in your marketplace that are not available on any other major industry wide service that we know of.  

Many members have a home page with statistics and tracking.  Some of them have told me they get most of their hits from ICIWorld. If you have a counter and/or a tracker to indicate where your hits come from on YOUR WEB SITE, you will find a great portion of them will come as a result of your information on ICIWorld once you are a member.  ICIWorld is a generator of traffic for commercial real estate information world wide.  It is not only that we are in the top ten of virtually ever major search engine in the world as we should be considering the fact we have perhaps the second largest number of listings in the world compared to real estate board type listing services. For an information service this is significant because there is no other service in the world that helps commercial real estatse brokers and salespeople, and the clients and prospects that they service, in quite the same way or at all.  There are over 70 countries of the world accessing information regularly.  When brokers join, many are surprised that people in their own backyard so to speak call them based on information that they placed here.   Why? Because when people search for a site that can serve them in their community, they find www.iciworld.com in the top lists in the world.  So people will find you . . . as long as you post your information as a member. 

Statistics continue to indicate the continued growth, usage, reliability, of the service.  Also our renewal rate of members is above 85%.  Members now report 1-2 deals per day with over 100 listings coming in per day.  The exposure is the highest in the world for commercial real estate information.  This is an electronic equivalent of classified ads in a newspaper, specializing in industrial, commercial and investment real estate, land, businesses, farms and more, supported by registered real estate brokers and salespeople world wide, and . . . free to the publc.

September/2001  

• This month you will see the introduction of the newest and latest platform for the industry.  There is nothing else in the world like it.

• It is subscription methods to make it easier to subscribe and unsubscribe to various Have and Want EMail List Services.  It has taken over one year in design and is coming on line at the first of this month.  Now that the method is in place to subscribe, we can now start designing the list services that suit you the best. For a preview of what is coming click here.  Everyone in the world will have their own controllable screens with lists that can be subscribed and unsubscribed to at will.  This is a major tool for everyone in the commercial real estate business world wide.  You are seeing it unveiled here for the very first time! 

• Solds. There is no requirement for members to report solds.  We have taken the position that it is the choice of the member.  The day that I added this, one member reported selling a $3,000,000 apartment building with another member.  This sale is not reported for competitive and other reasons.  They prefer to go about their business quietly.  In order to enquire about this $3M sale, you would be have to place a request to me.  I would forward it to the broker and it would be his choice to call you back.  Reporting Solds is helpful however to the industry.  Many appraisers tell me it is hard to find comparables from time to time and here is an important way. By reporting solds It shows the types of properties that are selling, where some of the business is done in terms of markets and types of property. It shows activity in your marketplace.  lt shows who is successful doing deals and for a job well done.   We have just starting communicating this to members that they can modify their listings, mark (SOLD) at the beginning of the subject, choose Status from Active to Sold and click on change listing.  Your comments on this or anything on this service is most appreciated. Comments.

• We now have positions of moderators If you would like to help bring this service to your area contact us now.  Each moderator will become a major center of influence in the areas in which they operate. There are paid opportunities to talk with all the commercial brokers in your area and subscribe them to receiving haves and wants in their area by email . . . free.

• Quick glance at a new statistics program coming soon for our new site.

• For the total statistics for a month, simply read the previous months.

• Print our the previous months statistics in color and use them in your listing presentation.  It will show you have greater exposure than virtually any other broker who is on the internet with their home page.

• You will see Total number of hits - over a quarter of a million.

• You will see Unique URLS (actual number of visitors - over 11,500)

• Note: the numbers are actually higher because many people receive all their information by way of EMail. You too can subscribe absolutely free to receive Haves and Wants in your area . . . free.

• You will see daily hits - averaging 9,000

• You will see the average hits per hour 386.

• Members are now reporting 1-2 deals per day and growing with one member reporting as many as twenty deals.

• There are now over 600 paid Executive Members and growing.

• There are people from over 70 countries of the world visiting regularly.

• The total automatic and "in house" manual EMail distribution lists may well reach 100,000 people and more and growing.

• There are over 3,000 privately placed Haves and Wants in the Private FSBO Area that members only can read.

• There are over 4,600 member placed Haves and Wants that are regularly updated.

• If you wish to receive Haves and Wants within the hour . . . free . . . you can.  This is a public service. This was the first and the fastest delivery of commercial real estate information in the industry that we know of . . . industry wide . . . world wide.

• There is now a Sold area.  Appraisers are advised to become members and receive the sold notifications.  Appraisers are advised to include a Want page in their appraisals indicating buyers in the marketplace and their parameters in many cases. 

• It is instant access and exposure.  Literally within minutes information is whisked around the world and is at the top of the database that is receiving over a quarter of a million hits per month.  Access to the FSBO Area is immediate as is the Resource Center.  Literally all connections in the world of real estate are there.  It has been several years in the making.

• Our Training is second to none.  We will help you in your market area.

• You can have a home page on the internet but there are over 1 billion web pages with searches that give million of results.  It is like having a small business on a side street but in a major city.  People can't find you.  This is a "Shopping Mall of Commercial Real Estate Information" where all the traffic is.  It has been ten years in the making.  On behalf of the members, we appreciate the opportunity to serve you.

• There are several computers on the internet.  If you were to picture Mount Everest as the top of the Internet with the best computers and the best connections to the major backbones of the world Internet, then you have an idea that it took us ten years to get to.  The average access time from anywhere on earth for a search is 4.9 seconds.  Test here for a quick glance at the world.

August/2001  

• Only information placed by Executive Members on behalf of their clients receives this kind of exposure on the internet and the extensive EMail distribution that instantly and automatically takes place on the addition or modification of Haves and Wants. 

• There are only one or two other services in the world that may be getting this much attention in the world for Industrial, Commercial and Investment Real Estate that we personally know of.  

• With several thousand message Haves and Wants it may be the highest on the planet earth for the numbers of Haves and Wants.  

• Only when you place your information as an Executive Member or try our Introductory Membership will you receive the circulation of your Haves and Wants that you and your clients and customers deserve. 

• This service has been ten years in the making, research and developing ways to help people connect to make money and is working very well and continues to grow.  There is an old saying, "you get what you pay for." 

• There are a lot of free services in the world that in my opinion are costing you a lot of lost time and that value is costing you money.  I believe the missed opportunities are staggering and people do not even know it!  

• Plug into the internet through a service that has specialized for ten years studying what it takes to help brokers and salespeople service their clients in an effective manner marketing through the internet.

July/2001 This is a growing community of people world wide interested in doing business in commercial real estate in their area.  The exposure is second to none.  Just look at the countries that are visiting regularly.  The automatic world wide distribution of all information placed by members continues to grow.  Be the first to be successful in your area.  Learn how to make it work for your customers in your area.  The skills that we have learned over the last ten years helping brokers and salespeople to do deals, we teach to you.  It has been the difference between people making money on the internet and wasting time and making nothing.  If time is valuable to you, then there is no choice. You should be talking to people, not parked in front of a computer all day long. Let us be the ones who are parked in front of the computer networking information globally. We will show you how to get maximum use from the internet with very little time, virtually minutes per month and . . .  help your clients do deals.  One of our members has done as many as twenty deals.  You will do deals.  It is all about people and this service serves the community of people interested in commercial real estate everywhere.  There isn't a week goes by that someone from the public or the organized real estate industry does not communicate their appreciation for this service.  It is reasonably priced ($240 per year+one time signup fee of $79) Details to sign up. Start connecting to do deals. Plug your information into the traffic.  Watch your counter on your home page go up. You will make connections.

Some people wonder why we are trying to cut stats down.  It is because I am concerned about the day when the system may not be able to handle things as everyone gets used to the speed of response.  There are over  400,000,000 people on the internet. Very shortly all this will be on everyone Television. It already is on many peoples TV!  So we are building delivery services.  Yes delivery services.  Instead of you visiting the site, just open your email for that shopping center you are looking for, or the industrial space in your area.  This is targeted EMail.  This is the focus of our building plan for the next year.  Computers in major sites in San Jose, California and Virginia (silicon valley east) are being ready for the introduction soon to more targeted publication lists.  In the meantime you can visit http://www.iciworld.net/yahoogroups.htm for more information and http://www.iciworld.net/publications.htm You should learn how to subscribe and unsubscribe.  This is a tool for everyone in the world to get information in a timely, efficient manner by professionals in the business.  Make sure you place your Haves and Wants . . . It's free!  These too are emailed out to members.  You can see these in what we call the Limited View.  Virtually every state has private listings, but we do not have paying members in every state yet.  You are invited to join to be the first.  Think of it this way, you don't have to pay a $25,000 franchise fee to get into a network like this to get leads.  Just join for $319 for the year.  This is one of the only pay services on the internet but we have had to work hard to get people like you to join.  The winning situation is that as the service grows it continues to grow on a solid foundation as the service has zero debt.  We hope you see the value of having licensed real estate brokers provide for the service so that it is free to the public.  It involves the broker.  A principal can not advertise direct to the public. More information becomes available to the world by brokers who are best placed in the industry to gather information that can benefit the very public that they serve.

This is one of the most productive web sites on the planet earth for people dealing in commercial real estate.  It started small in 1990 as an online CIBBS (Commercial Investment Bulletin Board System), then one of the first 25 on the Internet in January/1995 and now among the top services in the world in terms of number of listings and number of hits and visitors, it continues to grow and help generate transactions for everyone.  Tens of thousands either visit here on a daily to monthly basis and/or receive information regularly by email.  There are several hundred paid members and growing. If you deal in the buying, selling, or leasing of Industrial Commercial and Investment Real Estate, Land, Farms, Businesses, Financing, it definitely will benefit you by the connections you will make and the concepts you can learn to make the internet work for you to save time and make money.

June/2001 Our EMail Publications serve to reduce statistics on this service.  It is actually preferable to send information than to have searches going on here all the time.  Although it is an average access time of 4.9 seconds to search information, there are slow downs on the internet.  For instance, at 8:30am-9:00am West Coast time in the USA you may have 100,000,000 million people getting on the internet and there are over 400,000,000 people on the internet.  It slows things down. There are other reasons for slow downs.  By getting Haves and Wants delivered to you by email is more efficient in many cases, particularly when you learn how to filter and set up mail boxes that provide a database on your own computer that you can search. Also when we have tens of thousands of people accessing the same computer at the same time this also may slow things down. So our stats are actually higher than indicated in terms of unique visitors because we deliver so much mail to people who do not visit this site regularly.  In the beginning one may spend a lot of time discovering things on the service.  Once you are familiar with the service you may simply subscribe to the information that you want from time to time, and search just when you need to.  Make sure you are on a publication for your area.  Any questions please contact us anytime.

May/2001 We are also now promoting another way to get all information and that promotion is splitting some statistics from this site to that site.  It is a page at www.iciworld.com which may become very popular.  Your thoughts on this page would be appreciated.  The stats for http://www.iciworld.com are not reflected on this page.  

There are many services on the internet and many providing wonderful services in their area. When a broker or salesperson has to decide where to place information to get the maximum benefit you go through an evaluation process.  How much does it cost?  What are the benefits? What is the reach?  Will anyone contact me on my Haves and Wants so I can do business to serve my clients and make some money to provide for my family.  The good news is that one can be on more than one service.  Many of them are free and ICIWorld has many free services but to advertise in the public area does cost $240 per year.  As a broker for thirty years myself, I find it absolutely incredible that we as a real estate brokerage community can advertise so that 70 countries of the world can see our information and it is only $240/yr.  on our service and free on many others.

You also have to evaluate time!  One can not be on a thousand services.  I believe there will be up to ten services one might want to be on.  ICIWorld is simply one of the main ones in the world.  In fact we were there in 1995 when there were only 25 web sites on the internet for commercial real estate. 

Our specialty continues to be commercial real estate Haves and Wants in a way no other service handles them.  Although brokers advertise their real estate board type listings, ICIWorld handles information that is of an open and exclusive nature, we think, better than any other service in the world. You will need to learn how information is placed to protect and preserve your best interests.  Doing so actually promotes the best interest of the public because more information becomes available to benefit them.  Opportunities are identified that are otherwise not available in a big industry wide, world wide fashion.  

So we invite you to include a service on the cutting edge of technology.  We invent services to benefit the real estate industry as a whole.  The concepts and techniques learned here have even made other services stronger, have made real estate boards more relevant.  There are many directors of real estate boards and companies that are members here, who learn and research how the internet can work wonders and then apply it to their applications to profit and benefit their clientele.  We invite you to do the same.  

April/2001  Now over 318,000 339,000 360,000 400,000 hits! Another record month. This means business for you.  It is actually more because many people now receive all their information by one of our Publications!  As a builder of this exciting growing world wide community with people engaged in commerce, it is with great pride we see another record month.  When I took engineering in university I never thought I would be involved in building a virtual community.  But thirty years in real estate and the information age, here we are! Literally tens of thousands of people are accessing the information.  And since information can make one a lot of money, this information packed service becomes an endless gold mine of opportunities. There have been hundreds of people who have found gold so to speak.  But if you do not place your "nugget" it will be kind of hard for people on the planet to find you.  This service makes it easy for people on earth to find commercial real estate information. May we invite you to participate? Details. You are like the citizens of the city, provide us your suggestions and comments and we will enhance the service. Be prepared to learn.  This is a new, easier, faster, and better way to prospect and network.  There will be some skill elements needed by you.  We will personally teach you one on one. Join today. No matter where in the world you are located, you can benefit.

Everyone who has a license to trade in real estate . . . should be on this service. We will show you ways to make money that are unique.  In many cases we will be taking you outside of the box of how you normally do business. We know this works because recently we have heard a deal a day being reported.

Statistics are significant in so far as it demonstrates activity. There are over 1 billion web sites on the internet.  In commercial real estate, web sites may be getting less than 1,000 hits per month and your experience on the internet has not been productive yet.  This service demonstrates that all people in the world interested in commercial real estate must plug in to the traffic and with links to your web site, people are only one click away from your web site and the traffic will go up on your individual web sites.  Where did all this traffic come from and how is it maintained and how does growth occur on ICIWorld?  That is a major subject of a two day presentation.  When you drive a car, do you know how electronic ignition works?  But you know how to drive a car.  Learn to drive your information in the world today. 

The statistics can make for a Powerful Listing Presentation for all brokers and salespeople in the world once you become a member.  Members should print out February Statistics in color and use it in your listing presentations for the year.  It will show the way you are on the internet is significantly different than the way other brokers are on the internet by the hits your listings receive compared to the hits other broker's information receive.  Average web sites only receive 1,000 hits per month.  Your information on www.iciworld.net receives over a quarter of a million hits per month!  And the deals members are doing illustrates how successful this medium is when one knows how to work it properly.   For this we have a Training Program that ensures you will have the best opportunity for success on the internet today.   

April/2001 Many people get their Have and Want Information through EMail Lists that we provide free.  We continue to develop new services for the industry with the newest and latest one from Yahoo.  Here is a Email Publication List.  It is free to subscribe.  These are public publications of Haves and Wants tailored for your area. In actual fact the statistics for our service are much higher in terms of participation because many people do not visit the web site but receive their information by email and make contacts directly and do deals from there.  We have over twenty major services of which the new EMail Publications through Yahoo are the latest addition to "Information Tools" everyone should have in the world.  Everyone should subscribe now to the publication for their area.   If and when a Have or Want is placed on ICIWorld, then and only then will you receive a copy by email.  This actually helps reduce search requests on our server for continued fast access times when you do use it for searches. 

March/2001 Record last month, see February. It has taken on a life of its own. There are certain pockets of the world now developing what I call a critical mass.  That is when there are a number of people in an area who can inter react with each other is enough to do deals on a regular basis. I see it happening when I hear about the number of deals being generated in an area.  It is very exciting.  Information is collected by a member.  It is placed on line and delivered.  Within hours to a few days it is transmitted to the industry.  You should subscribe to the free EMail List Service in your area.  People can then act on that information and commerce can be trans acted.  It's fast, simple when you know how and easy.  We teach it all in a one hour orientation session on line for every new member. It is very exciting to see.  It is a community of people interested in commercial real estate. 

February/2001 Another three records! Over 21,000 hits in one day and then 25,000 hits on the next day.  Now over 300,000 hits in one month. The world is reading the information on ICIWorld!  You can check daily to see activity levels starting yesterday from the beginning of the month. We publish our statistics unlike many others.  We have worked long and hard over the years to build a community that everyone in the world interested in commercial real estate will visit and participate. When you become a member, you can use these stats in your listing presentation to show the differences of people on the internet.  It is like one giant convention of Haves and Wants and we hope to earn your respect to help you place yours.  We essentially become a marketing and information assistant to you personally. Start delegating some of the responsibility to market your properties and find what you need. Along the way you will learn how to market more effectively than you have ever done in the past. Hundreds have made money and benefited their clients.  Our goal is to help you do deals and we have helped hundreds make a lot of money and benefit their clients. We won't be happy until you do the same.  Here are some members with successful transactions.  If you have a "Have" or a "Want" contact one of our members today.  They have proven the internet can work and it can for you! In many cases there was absolutely no other service that could have succeeded for them.  Learn the secrets why. Join today. Details. 

January/2001 Another record month in growth. Over 280,000 hits, over 70 countries accessing information on a regular basis.  Stats to demonstrate unequivocally in print of the readership!  That should be one of the big questions of anyone trying to decide to join or not to join.  It is readership that is important, not whether there are one hundred of the same kind of listings in that area. If you advertise a mini storage warehouse in a local newspaper and there are no other mini storage warehouses in the newspaper, does that mean it is no good?  The right question is what is the readership?  If you want to drive a Mercedes car you first had to learn how to drive.  Now it is not only vital to become "Internet Enabled" but to become an expert in your own right to market your Haves and Wants. Our Training Program will do that.  It is a 60 minute program conducted in your office over the phone while you are on the internet with you and your personal assistant(s). All this has led to many sales by members. Testimonials Recent Sales  Members with Successful Transactions  

For a Powerful Listing Presentation you should print out the January, 2001 Statistics in color.  It will show several things:

• Show the Hits. Over 280,000 hits for the month.  See January, 2001!

• If you are competing with another broker(s) for a listing who say they are on the Internet, we suggest that the way you are on the internet with this service is significantly different than the way they are on the Internet.  Individual home pages of brokers do not receive this kind of traffic. This means your competitors may only be getting a few hundred hits per month. You can show the difference.  With  ICIWorld you are plugging your clients information into the world of traffic on the Internet!  You have the stats to demonstrate.  It is a powerful listing tool.

• ICIWorld only deals in Industrial, Commercial and Investment Real Estate World Wide.  We do not deal in residential real estate or anything else not related to commercial real estate to cloud the statistics.

• There actually is a lot more attention that the stats show.  That is because with the Free EMailing List Services, many people do not visit the site regularly.  They get all their information delivered to them daily by way of these Free Email List Services.  Our stats would actually be much higher!

• The service continues to grow for the benefit of the industry because of the number of useful services, expertise and because of the members who promote the service.

• Show the hits per hour, average and maximums. Look at the number of hits per hour averaging 380.  Look at the maximum number of hits per hour 4,274! In the past only multi national companies, major corporations, organizations could have afforded the kinds of computers and software that is now possible to us!

• Show the hits per day, average and maximum! 

• Show the hits by day (third chart down in January/2001 for instance).  In green are the hits and the days of the month are down the left. 

• Show the hits by hour during the day.  This shows the times of the day when people work the site. 13 is 1pm, 14 is 2pm. Another significance is that people are working 24hr per day on the site!  Even at 1-7am in  the morning, it is like leaving the front door of your office open with people coming in to do commercial real estate business with you!

• Show The Countries!  See January, 2001 statistics and go to the bottom of the page. This is the best. In your listing presentation, show the countries that are accessing this service.  Never before has this been possible to market and network all your haves and wants all year long for as little as $240 to reach the countries of the world such as you have here!  It is really incredible wouldn't you agree? Your clients information will be available to them!  You will see countries from all over the world accessing this site.  And I have stories of people from all over the world buying in all parts of the world.  It is very exciting.  In fact it is the inspiration of broker member stories that continue to inspire us to this day and grow the service on your behalf.

• You might ask, how did we make all this happen to get so much exposure and participation.  The answer to this question would be subject of a two day course.   We have been studying and working the application of information technology for the commercial real estate industry since 1990.  We I first met Jack Peckham, CCIM in the early nineties it was a significant moment because he and I recognized then we were on the cutting edge and very few people at that time knew about this stuff and how fantastic it could revolutionize this industry. We found at that point that our experiences were very similar in terms of tools that we had discovered that could be used by professionals in the market place. Since then ICIWorld has continued to make it our business to find unique, varied, ordinary, different and highly sophisticated ways to work information in the marketplace to help brokers service their clients and make money using information technology.  It is working exceptionally well and what we have in mind for the industry is even more exciting!  It is incredible the connections that are being made by the members and we continue to be inspired daily by the stories.

• We have made it our business to become expert at these things and ask that you hire us as a marketing and information assistant to you personally. Instead of us working in your office with a fleet of computers and overhead with you paying me a salary and all the overhead to help you market, network Haves and Wants, you only pay $240 for the year!  You are getting a $100,000 a year person for the year for just . . . $240. ($79 one time signup fee for ten years of research we did on your behalf.)

• Give me a chance to talk with you and I can show you how very little time is needed to accomplish something as major as finding the right buyer or seller for your project.  It can be as little as one minute to place a Have or Want once you know how!  We have broker members who have made over a quarter of a million dollars with this "minute" and many others 5 and 6 figure incomes!

• Samples of growth 

  • Another Milestone 11,000 hits now 14,000 hits now 19,000 hits in one day!

  • And now traffic reaching over 220,000 hits, now over a quarter million hits (233,834) in one month, now over 280,000 hits in January, 2001. 

• Average access time to search the latest information 4.9 seconds from anywhere in the world! Test it here, count slowly after you have clicked here: Latest USA It took us ten years to develop what we think is among the absolute best service in the world for response times to queries of the database.  Busy people just will not wait for responses, they are simply too busy. 

  • However since we could not guarantee it in the past we didn't feel proper to quote providing this service to real estate boards who required these kinds of guarantees in their request for proposals even though we managed to now accomplish it.

  • We now invite real estate boards to consider have all their commercial real estate members to join.  There is a very good win win situation here that you should consider exploring particularly if you are a director or leader in your board or organization.

February/2001 You can check daily to see activity level. 

January/2001 Another record month in growth. Over 280,000 hits, over 70 countries accessing information on a regular basis.  Now that's readership!  That should be one of the big questions of anyone trying to decide to join or not to join.  It is readership, not whether there are one hundred of the same kind of listings in that area. We find certain industries are a little slow to get up to speed.  Perhaps we are a little fast. Part of the reason is that people have not had the time for personal training while they are trying to make a dollar.  Now it is vital to become "Internet Enabled."  Our Training Program will be conducted in your office over the phone while you are on the internet. All this has led to many sales by members. Testimonials Recent Sales  Members with Successful Transactions Print out the Statistics for January/2001 in color and use it in your Listing Presentations! 

How many online on the Internet? The art of estimating how many are online throughout the world is an inexact one at best. Surveys abound, using all sorts of measurement parameters. However, from observing many of the published surveys over the last two years, here is an "educated guess" as to how many are online worldwide as of November 2000. And the number is 407.1 million.

Your information will be only one click away when placed by an Executive Member.

December/2000 You will notice that the stats are lower every December.  One of the reasons many people choose commercial real estate is the quality of life and working hours, compared to working in residential real estate.  It is an advantage to be in commercial real estate to be able to spend more time with the family and loved ones.  You will also see a drop off of activity on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the year reflecting the respect for personal freedom that is appreciated by most all in this business.

November/2000 on going stats. We publish our stats in two formats. This is one of them. Important not for the accuracy since many of the stats are generalizations, but important because it shows activity.  People who do business in commercial real estate are generating the activity which shows up in the stats!  The highest and best price and terms is dependent on reaching the widest number of people for instance and if anyone in commercial real estate overlooks this service then could they be missing achieving the highest and best price and terms for their clients?  When working with a purchaser, if a broker does not place a purchasers acquisition criteria, their buying or leasing requirements here, could they be missing finding another property for sale or for lease or is about to come for sale or lease?  We do not make our revenues from advertising and yes it requires $240 per year to support the service or otherwise how would it function?  Over 600 broker and salesperson members continue to believe in the service at a 90% renewal rate.  The public certainly does because it is they who contribute to the 14,000 hits in one day!  I get phone calls from them expressing the appreciation for the service but it is really the information from the broker members that they appreciate.  There isn't any kind of search and sort and delivery of information that we can't do.  This service is yours!  You are the main beneficiary.  If there is any thing you would like to suggest as an enhancement please do.  This service has been built on suggestions from people like yourself. We have a major initiative underway now to improve and specialize the delivery of information to the world. One item is about to start to be tested and if you would like to be a beta tester, let me know. mailto:garynusca@iciworld.net We appreciate the opportunity to be of service to you.

Last complete month see September. Besides the hourly, daily, and monthly hits, go to the bottom of the September stats page and view the countries accessing the site daily!  There are people from over 70 countries of the world viewing information daily!  I am constantly to this day, amazed by this. This is a very powerful selling tool and there are hundreds of sales to prove it, more than almost every other service that we personally know of!  Have a quick look at recent sales and see the growing list of members who have benefited.  This is a major information tool that every single person doing business in commercial real estate or in any of our business categories in the world should use as part of your "information tool box." Learn how to place an icon right on your desk top with an icon picture of the world that takes you right to http://www.iciworld.net and check in regularly and place your information and keep your information up to date by modifying your listings a minimum of every 30-45 days.  Not only will it go to the top of the database but will get sent out to the industry free to everyone who subscribes to our Free EMailing List Services. See Free EMailing List Services at www.iciworld.net

Analog Stats Program Recently in creating more space I accidentally deleted log files for the beginning of October. (Hey, live and learn!) This is another stats program that will provide the last seven days of stats so you get an idea of the last week of traffic at a time. 

This is one of our stats programs.  However we prefer Webalizer stats program for printing out and using in listing presentations to demonstrate that when information is placed here you have a significantly better opportunity of people seeing your information than your competitors.  This is powerful when used in listing presentations to show your reach around the world using this information tool.  This is one of the major information tools that every single real estate broker and salesperson in the world should have in their information tool box.  It has been a ten year undertaking thus far and simply gets more exciting every day.

One way to gain some sense of readership levels is illustrated by the number of hits now at over 220,000 for the last month. This is among the highest in the world for any commercial real estate site and we are confident enough to feel that virtually everyone in the world interested in commercial real estate will at one time or another check into this site. It is so easy for people throughout the world to read information on iciworld.net it is quite amazing. In the past, to advertise to over 70 countries of the world would have cost a fortune. To have searchable information available within 4.9 seconds average response time, from anyplace on the planet earth, was a dream.  Now it is a reality!  A community of like minded people throughout the world, people who are interested in some aspect of commercial real estate, are starting to enjoy the features of computers, technology, and the professed claims of the Internet. The success stories inspire us to continue to grow the service. In fact we have a major initiative underway that is even more exciting and you will be hearing more about that over the next year.   Prospecting is easier.  To get into a showing is easier. Opportunities to make money are easier once you have the understanding of how to use the Internet effectively.   Without it, you simply miss out.  There is a responsibility on your part since you are the provider of the information.  And for that, we have provided a Training Program. You must take it each year or you miss out on the new developments happening at a very fast pace. It can be the difference between making $50,000 or making zero and a great many of our members have the stories to prove it.  We seem to be reinventing ourselves constantly.  It is quite a challenge and responsibility for us but as in the last ten years, we continually seem to be ahead of the market. It is still years more for everyone to really catch up to where we would like to see things but it is happening gradually. It may seem fast for you, but it is slow for us.  Everything is unfolding as I envisioned it ten years ago.  As the business starts to mature on how to use Information Technology in their everyday business, people will also gain a greater respect for what I call "information" in the marketplace.  It is still this information and the opportunities of connecting with others in a compatible and beneficial manner that we continue to unlock in this business. There have been enough successes to know that we are the right track on your behalf.  If Bill Gates was to see what we are doing, I am sure he would be proud, because he provided the platform through his leadership for it. Do not hesitate to contact us.  We appreciate the opportunity to serve you.  Your thoughts appreciated.

All previous months are listed below as well as different types of stats programs.  Look for Statistics by the Month, Day, Countries and more Reach . . . the World

The Market ICI World Commercial Real Estate Network

This is one of the highest traffic centers in the world for commercial real estate.  Executive Members should print out stats and use them in their listing presentations.  We will show you how in your training session that all new and renewing members receive.  Just being on the internet is not enough.  You must plug in to high traffic centers like your real estate boards and iciworld.net When you point this out to your clients they will want to have you place their information here because it stands to reason that the more exposure in your marketing you provide for them, the better price and terms are probable.  Without you as a member placing their information here, they simply miss out.  The real tragedy is that many brokers and salespeople have opportunities to do business and because of this fast paced world, because everyone is so overwhelmed with paper and suffering from information overload, that haves and wants do not get worked.  People are missing deals and they don't even know it.

Statistics at www.iciworld.net

Real Estate Brokers and Salespeople are providing services to benefit the industry unlike anything that has ever been done before on the planet earth and it is working very smoothly.  It is a credit to the members who are taking the time to learn how to provide the very best in networking opportunities to benefit their clients and prospects, the whole industry.

If you are a principal and would like your information placed, choose an Executive Member of the service or place a free ad in the FSBO area.

Executive Member placed information is only one click away from any one of over 200,000 hits per month! Members report responses in some cases within an hour of placing information!  Every person on the planet can check in here regularly very easily.  We see to this by doing regular world wide monthly distribution and on going circulation of information throughout the world. You just have to have your information here when people check in for the latest. No matter where in the world you live or work, there is no reason in the world why you will not have the next successful transaction or contact that will lead to doing business.  Every single person in the ICI Industry can and will benefit from this service in my opinion.  It is just a matter of time for you to start to learn how to use these services and we will help you. 

There have now been perhaps more transactions triggered as a result of this service than any other service on the Internet that we personally see reported. Member testimonials continue to inspire us. 

You must place your information in order for people to read it.  The readership is 65% from the USA and the rest of the world.  No matter what country you are in, if you are reading this, there probably are others in your country, in you city, in your area who as long as they have the internet will find you.  Your clients and prospects can check this site too!   The readership is here! The first to join in an area are the first to benefit many times. And there is no major $25,000 franchise fee.  If principals call to place an ad, we refer them to you.

Click on September 2000 for instance at the beginning of one of the paragraphs below.  The first thing you will see are the total hits.  You will see the traffic is here.   The readership is here for your information.  In the third table you will see the hits by day for all the days of the month.  Then in the next table there are the hits by hour so you can see the times of the day when there is traffic.  At the bottom of the page you will see the countries accessing the site on a regular basis.   It is quite phenomenal!  This site is becoming a global village of people interested and dealing in commercial real estate around the world.  One caller I spoke to was watching this site on his TV set on an island in the Pacific!

Your information will be only one click away when placed.  Your web site will be only one click away from these people!  Your phone numbers are in every message for people to contact you.  Your email address is only one click away from them as well.

It is just a matter of time for someone to read your information and contact you directly.  It is very exciting times.  We are totally inspired every single day by the member brokers reporting making connections with others to do business. 

Principals must place their information with a member of the service in order to benefit from the maximum exposure.  It is a real estate broker service to the public.   As a result, more information becomes available in the marketplace and the benefits to the public are greater access to information, greater exposure to the world. It is a win win situation.   Do not be fooled by just having a page of information on the internet.  There are over 1 Billion web pages on the internet.  Pages are lost and not being found and when they are you are in a list of 30,000!  Busy people just won't read through this.  You must plug into the high traffic centers of the world.  One of them is your MLS systems is.  One of them is ICI World. 

Members will also learn the True Power of the Internet is in linking and we will empower you and/or your staff to do this. There are ten concepts, which if you miss one, you miss making money.  We know this because we have been assisting brokers for ten years.  We are strong administrators in the organization, time management and on how this information should be handled and what to do. There are specific recommendations that will make you money.  We know this because we do this on a daily basis with brokers and salespeople and it works.  

Do not hesitate to contact us anytime 416-214-4875, EMail.  We appreciate the opportunity to serve you.

Statistics by the Month, Day, Countries and more

Reach . . . the World

Readership is illustrated by the number of hits now at over 220,000 for the last month. It is so easy for people throughout the world to read information on this site it is quite amazing. In the past, to advertise to over 70 countries of the world would have cost a fortune. To have searchable information available within 4.9 seconds average response time, from anyplace on the planet earth, was a dream.  Now it is a reality!  A community of like minded people throughout the world, people who are interested in some aspect of commercial real estate, are starting to enjoy the features of computers, technology, and the professed claims of the Internet. The success stories inspire us to continue to grow the service. In fact we have a major initiative underway that is even more exciting and you will be hearing more about that over the next year.   Prospecting is easier.  To get into a showing is easier. Opportunities to make money are easier once you have the understanding of how to use the Internet effectively.   Without it, you simply miss out.  There is a responsibility on your part since you are the provider of the information.  And for that, we have provided a Training Program. You must take it each year or you miss out on the new developments happening at a very fast pace. It can be the difference between making $50,000 or making zero and a great many of our members have the stories to prove it.  We seem to be reinventing ourselves constantly.  It is quite a challenge and responsibility for us but as in the last ten years, we continually seem to be ahead of the market. It is still years more for everyone to really catch up to where we would like to see things but it is happening gradually. It may seem fast for you, but it is slow for us.  Everything is unfolding as I envisioned it ten years ago.  As the business starts to mature on how to use Information Technology in their everyday business, people will gain a greater respect for what I call "information" in the marketplace.  It is still this information and the opportunities of connecting with others in a compatible and beneficial manner that we continue to unlock in this business. There have been enough successes to know that we are the right track on your behalf.  If Bill Gates was to see what we are doing, I am sure he would be proud, because he provided the platform through his leadership for it. Do not hesitate to contact us.  We appreciate the opportunity to serve you.  Your thoughts appreciated.

November, 2000 Continues to show a readership from over 50 countries of the world.  66% from the USA and the rest of the world and 17% from Canada.  Although statistics are not 100% accurate they do reflect a level of activity.  Most real estate web sites may get 1,000 to 2,000 total hits.  By plugging into a major site like this you direct that traffic to your web site if you have one, and to your information and you.  The results have always been surprising to new members who are just starting to learn about this service.  Older members are busy working on their next transaction after having done several deals.  

October, 2000 I lost them.  I tried removing excess files that were not needed on our web site and the October stats were deleted.

September, 2000 And on the last of day of August hit over 11,000 hits in one day.  And now we have reached over 200,000 hits by the 27th of the month!  There have been sales of properties through this service not only locally in the US and Canada in each members market, but to people from around the world.  We know of sales to people from Holland, Germany, Malaysia, Korea, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and more. The readership is world wide so no matter where in the world you are located, people will find you here as long as you place your information.  People on the planet earth are only one click away from your information.  Please let us know of your successes.  In some cases and I am sure there are others, we have not found out about some successes until years later when someone mentioned it to us.  Additionally we now have a Sold button that members can report sales but it is not a requirement to do so.  Many like to continue to do business "quietly" and this service was designed to do just that.

Webalizer Stats Program August, 2000 We like this program for printing out in color and using in listing presentations. It shows activity!  Other people may have listings on the internet on their web site, etc., but iciworld.net is where the traffic is!  Only by placing listings on this service will you be plugged in to the traffic.  And then traffic is diverted to your information, home page and/or contact is made.  It is up to you to close on a showing.  Hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly activity is illustrated including the countries of the world accessing the site daily. If a person has a computer and is on the internet in your city or area, they will eventually find this site and they will be finding your information.  Don't be a secret agent.  Ask  us how you can do it in a manner compatible with how you do business.  We have helped thousands of people get started so do not be shy or intimidated.  We are friendly and enthusiastic and will enjoy the opportunity to speak with you.

August, 2000 Although typically this is a holiday month, August 10 saw another milestone when there were over 10,000 hits in one day. Printing stats out in color can help show all the countries of the that will be accessing the information.  This is helpful in listing presentations to show the exposure you will be providing to your clients.  After all they are trying to get the highest price and terms and the bigger the exposure the better the opportunity to do so.  It shows the number of hits.  This is important because there are over 1 Billion web pages out there.  Many commercial sites get little or no hits of any significance.  The stats illustrate the traffic as one of the largest in the world and you can expect great exposure for your information and the better likelihood of results.

May, 2000 to July and continuing.    Started in May, this is one kind of stats program. As of the last week in April the new server is working very smooth.  The listings are coming in at the rate of up to 80 per day.  This is the most we have ever had and the system is poised to handle thousands of more pieces of information and make them all searchable in a thousand different ways.  We have about another 30 improvements that we are going to start to work on over the next few months.  Now would be a good time for your suggestions to come in and lets take it to the next level.  There literally is nothing that can't be done in terms of programming to help you accomplish your business objectives.  Please do not hesitate to call anytime.  There have now been over 100 deals that we know about.  With a little over 500 members, 200 or so who have not yet had their training programs that makes for a high quality of success among the people who have had their training!  It is perhaps the highest success to membership ratio in the world for industrial, commercial and investment real estate information.  You really need to have the training.  It is like having a jet outside your door, it sounds good but if you do not know how to fly it, you still aren't going anyplace.  From beginners to intermediate to expert users of computers and the Internet, we will take you up to the level where you really start making money.  We have had much experience in this and are able to make that statement.  Call now 416-214-4875 to get started.  Appointments every hour on the hour starting at 7am in the morning, 5 days per week.  Every broker half way through the training starts to get really excited. Many say they should have started a long time ago.  It is the competitive edge in the marketplace.  Many members do not share their information and request that we do not be specific.  Can you blame them?  They have a competitive edge in their marketplace!

April, 2000 New statistics program. Which one do you prefer this one or previous months?   The upgrade to a new server, with new software has been a major undertaking for us over a period of six months.  It is a milestone in the development of information services for commercial real estate. We are very pleased to be receiving so many wonderful comments from Executive Members and the public on the response times everyone seems to be now enjoying.  We are dedicated to having absolutely every single person in the world interested in Industrial, Commercial and/or Investment Real Estate, Land, Businesses, Financing, etc. network through this service as one of their information tools.  One place, one connection, one deal and continued business.   You couldn't possibly hope to track all the haves and wants of everyone out there in the marketplace.  This service can and does collect Have and Want "information" from licensed real estate professionals around the world, to serve the public.  There is no other service quite like it. Listing services are different.  Yes you can advertise listings, but we do not try to duplicate real estate board listing services.  This is more an electronic equivalent of classified ads specializing in ICI Real Estate. This service is designed to handle information in the marketplace that is not on real estate boards and probably never will be.  It is not the listings that are important, it is the people behind the listings.  By connecting here, you develop relationships that lead to doing business.  Training has been a key for the enlightened brokers and salespeople that recognize the limitations of their competence on the internet and then strive to attain a level of knowledge that accomplishes the success for their clients.   We continue to offer this training to all new real estate brokers and salespeople on their subscription.  Your comments, suggestions are most appreciated to continue to grow the service.

March, 2000.  The reach around the world is quite incredible and the results prove it.  People from Malaysia buying a resort, from the United Kingdom buying shopping centers, from Germany buying land, from countries in Europe buying hotels, and much more!  I talked with a one person on an island in the Pacific ocean who was sitting on his couch watching ICI World on his TV!  He had WebTV!  The reach is quite phenomenal!  For several years we have been networking information throughout the world and you get the immediate benefit of many years of attracting attention for commercial real estate information.   All these people are literally only one or two clicks away from your information once you place it.  This is a major world wide electronic classified advertising service specializing in Have and Want Information for Industrial, Commercial and Investment Real Estate, Land, Businesses, Financing and more!  It is a service bureau distributing information through out the world by way of twenty major services. The readership is among the tops in the world if not the tops.  There are now over 5,000 listings with a readership of almost 200,000 hits per month. In many cases people report being into deals within days.  We believe this information service has the most deals of any service on the internet that we have every seen reported other than real estate board type listing services.

February, 2000 The Ultimate in Networking and Marketing.  Connecting people of like minded interests.  It is most gratifying to hear members report successes in the marketplace.  This service provides opportunities not possible on any other service today.  This is not a listing service like a real estate board.  Yes you can advertise listings but really it was designed to be an information service.  One broker who worked only with restaurants looking for new locations and packaged the land, designed and built the building, leased and sold it recently said "well I really only work with buyers very closely."  He was not aware that that he could place a "want" for commercial sites with 30,000 car traffic counts with at least 120 foot frontage.   Owners and others can respond to these kind of messages!  It is that simple and its fast.  You just have to try it.  May we invite you as a broker to join the service with one very small membership and serve your community today.  If you are a buyer or owner or developer place your have or want in the Free area to get started and you reach a great many in the industry.  The best however is through a licensed real estate Executive Member since all that information is in a database that receives almost 200,000 hits per month and then instantly and automatically is emailed to the all who subscribe to the free services.  Then there is 18 other services that we promote your information to.  No other service in the world does this.  Whether it is a manufacturing business or a variety store, a mom and pop operation or an $80 Million shopping center, this service has helped people come together and it will for you!

January, 2000 Another record month.  However there are now over 1 billion web pages on the internet.  Everyone is lost. When people use search engines they get many thousands of returns.   People do not have the time to go through them all.  However another major way to be found is to plug your information into the major traffic centers and link to your home pages.  That will generate business for you.  ICI World is one of the major commercial real estate centers in the world for the introduction of people that lead to doing business.   The members on this service provide more daily have and want information opportunities than almost any other service.  Over 5,000 listings and almost 200,000 hits per month.  And it is actually more than that since much information is emailed to people without them ever visiting the site!  It is this constant flow of information that attracts people and makes it easy for you to connect to do a deal.  However you must get your information placed in the public area and keep it current by modifying it a minimum of every 30-45 days.  Additionally members should read the Training Program which contains ten important concepts.  If you miss any one of them you miss making money.  There are perhaps more transactions triggered through this service than any other that we personally know of in large part to the ideas contained in this training program.  We think we can prove it to you if you give us a chance. Please do not hesitate to contact us anytime.  Home/office. 416-214-4875.  No matter where in the world you are, we are as near as the closest telephone.

December, 1999  Executive Members should print out November stats for use in listing presentations.  As we proceed towards the New Millennium with some of the most advanced information tools available to man, I reflect on the growth of this service and how well poised it is to handle information in 2000.  There are now over 5,000 ICI Have Want Messages making it the 2nd largest in the world.  There have been more transactions triggered by this service than any other service on the internet that we know of. We continue to hear of inspiring stories of connections being made and look forward to helping you make connections to benefit.  There are enhancements in the works for the next upgrade.  Please make any suggestions you have now and they could very well be incorporated for the next upgrade.

November, 1999 Another record month of over 170,000 hits.  View the countries accessing the service!   The readership is there for you now!!  As the service continues to grow, there are growing pains along the way.  We have experienced problems with the Mailing List Service sending out triplicate messages but this is now fixed.  The research and development that is ongoing is fully funded by the service and really is many ideas of the members.  As a result there have been more transactions triggered through this service than any other that I know of.  It is the goal to now have these list servers deliver information to you at the speed of thought.  You think of something, an opportunity, place it on ICI World in the appropriate category, and people who have subscribed to that category will receive your information very quickly and can respond to you immediately. 

Now it may take some training on your part on how you should subscribe to the particular categories of interest.  Additionally you may want to learn how to filter incoming messages from around the world into mailboxes on your boxes that sort mail.

The reason you may want to do this is that your inbox may continue to grow and eventually it may get overwhelming to go through all your mail daily.  Well there is a way to filter incoming mail into different mailboxes.  I have 52 mailboxes set up.   One is for shopping centers, one is for apartment buildings for instance.  All the shopping centers for the last six months are all in this one box instantly available on a click.  If you are at all interested to collect all the industries haves and wants and have them stored into nice neat mailboxes in your email program give us a call we will show you how it is done.

To read more about this go to About ICI World off the Main Menu and click on EMail Mailing Lists.

October, 1999 This is a record month of over 140,000 hits.  The service continues to grow as people plug in on a regular basis.  The service is designed to handle all ICI type information on the planet earth. (sounds strange doesn't it?).  This service has been for years on the cutting edge of the information revolution as it applies to commercial real estate and it continues to grow as people learn how to use the tools that are being made available to them by Bill Gates and others.

This is one world headquarters to gather information and make it available to the world in a way compatible with the organized real estate industry.  There is more information available to the public and more opportunities than any other way. 

Not only does one have to learn how to use a computer and software but there are some very real things that have to be learned to take advantage of it all.  For this reason we have designed a ten point training program for members to ensure that one does take advantage.  No matter where in the world you are, sit in front of your computer on one line while talking with us on another line.  It is a 60 minute session that will help you.  You will have a marketing plan for the next six months as it may take you that long to catch up with others that have learned.  We have helped trigger over 40 primary transactions recently that would not have been done if it were not for this service.  There have been 100's of secondary transactions with the use of features that help make your listing presentations very powerful.

This service is best used with other listing services as we consider this an "information service" rather than a listing service such as a real estate board.   Yes you can advertise listings like you do in a newspaper and you do it here, but you can handle information that does not appear and probably will never appear on a real estate board.  Some brokers say 90% of the shopping centers are not on real estate boards and never will be.  You can handle that quite nicely on this service.   You can find and sort information here by special techniques.  Click on Search Have Want Information and then Help in the left frame for instance and print out some ideas.  If you have a shopping center for sale, in some areas there already are over 80 buyers that you can pick up the phone, make an appointment, show it, sell it, it can be that fast and in fact one broker member has sold seven shopping centers!

On the other hand, as the service continues to grow I am sure some of us have an increasing frustration with the lack of speed that we are accustomed to in our other business activities.  For the internet I notice a marked slowdown after 11:30am in the morning.  I figure there are over 100,000,000 on the West Coast coming on line and it slows the whole internet down.   So from the Central USA to the East Coast in North America I suggest trying to do your business on this service prior to 8::30am Pacific Coast or California time.  In Toronto that would be before 11:30am. 

For this reason of the slowness of the internet you should know we have created other services that are fast to deliver information to you.  One is the backups (in the left frame you will see Backups).  One is the Free EMailing List Services. (In the Top Frame).  Many people do not even visit the web site regularly, they simple have all the listings delivered to them by email.  And for those who specialize, there are specialty category delivery of Haves and Wants by EMail.  For instance if you are only interested in Apartment Buildings in Ontario, you can subscribe to just that!   In the USA, we have added specialty areas but have not added the business categories.  We will add these special business categories on request absolutely free.  Just ask.   In fact we look forward to doing them for you.  We are leaving this service as market driven.  You are the market so please do let us know.  Send an EMail that you would like to receive just shopping centers for instance in California, or industrial buildings in Texas. This is free to the public. When you are on the list, you literally would receive a have or want of a shopping center within an hour of it being placed on the service.   This is free to the public. It is the fastest delivery of commercial real estate information in the world that I know of.  One must be a licensed real estate person member of this service in order to place information on this service.  It is $319 for eighteen months service to your next renewal date and then $240/yr. thereafter.   Members have the additional benefit of receiving haves and wants by email from the FSBO area.  This is where principals throughout the world can place haves and wants free and they are delivered to our members free within the hour.

One major request from me to you has to do with the Free EMailing List Services.   Please let me know if you prefer a category more suited to your business.  It is our desire to have you be the big beneficiary of this service. If it can be a benefit to you connecting with any one of our members, then we will definitely consider doing it and want to.  Please do not be shy about this. We know you work in your little corner of the world but believe me this is an industry made up into one big family of people with a very real love and interest in ICI Real Estate.  Because it is such a specialized field with so many varied specialized interests within it, it is our goal to cater to you, to help you.  We have at our disposable the most advanced software and programs to design these mailing list services and I believe in conjunction with the database it is the fastest delivery of commercial real estate information in the world.  One email at the right time can trigger you to work with someone to provide a timely and valuable service to others.  The database is always there to research and benefit from. Time is the most important commodity we have and these services are designed to target business in the most cost efficient manner in the world today.  Give us a call anytime to discuss your personal haves and wants and how they can best be worked throughout the industry and the world in a way that is compatible with how you like to do business. 416-214-4875 905-577-7764 or toll free North America 1-877-272-1721. EMail Gary Nusca, CCIM Nusca, CCIM

September, 1999 It is one thing to have a computer and quite another to know how to use it. As people learn how to work their information the benefits of the information age become realized.  Some transactions happen so easily it is hard to believe.  One agent who made $52,000 said it was so easy he could hardly believe it.  He placed information on the service.   Two weeks later someone called.  They had a meeting, qualified the purchaser, showed the property and sold a 33,000 sq.ft. industrial building.  What made this possible was the critical mass of people using the various services.  Now this took us almost 10 years to build and that WAS hard.  But we continue to be inspired by members and the public who benefit.  We are now working on the next upgrade.   This is a service bureau for the industry.  It is like a twenty storey office building with a major service on each floor.  It will take you time to learn them and how and when to apply them effectively in your business.  We teach that in a ten point training program provided to new members on subscribing.  The industry is moving so fast members who have not taken this training for six months are advised to take it again as there are new services that were not even in existence six months ago.

August, 1999 Over 40 primary deals recently, over 100 secondary deals where people made contact, discussed other things not on this service and went off and did a deal.  There are many more transactions based on listings obtained because of this service and sold in other ways.  All in all, the service is working very smoothly and continues to grow.  With its capability to handle all of the world's haves and wants, all people in the world who deal in industrial, commercial and investment real estate, land, businesses, financing and more, should make this service a part of their business information tool box.  It is a major sphere of influence that simply makes it very easy to contact people and have them contact you.  Prospecting has never been easier nor so inexpensive.  Time has been reduced to make contact with other qualified people.  Information flows to the benefit of all in the industry in a most compatible way.  We appreciate the opportunity to serve you and welcome suggestions and requests for enhancements. 

July, 1999 Readership by the public of information on this service continues to grow.  It is not just the hits on this site that people read and make contact but also by the Free EMail List Services.   People who subscribe to categories by email in many cases do not even visit the site but receive email of listings and contact people directly.   By being a member your information reaches them.  However you must circulate your information regularly.  Many people work the top half of the database and get so busy they do not even get down to the bottom part of the database.  Also since people today are overwhelmed with information make sure you make it easy for people to become interested in what you have.  Place the four ingredients in your subject line.  It will trigger more calls and contacts for you. 

June, 1999 Members should print out the statistics.  Use them in your listing presentations. It is very powerful when used effectively.  The way you are on the internet is considerably different from the way non members are on the internet.  No site that we know is receiving over 100,000 hits per month for commercial real estate information.  This means you have a competitive advantage over others.  We are being notified sometimes daily of the connections members are making with other people to market real estate in their local areas.  Some members report it is so easy.  For instance one broker was told by an owner of an industrial building that he did not want a sign and did not want to provide a listing, but he would pay a commission if the broker could bring in a buyer.  He posted the information.  Within two weeks it just so happened another broker had a buyer.  They met for one hour.  The buyer was interested and qualified.  The broker called the owner and arranged for a 48 hour exclusive listing to cover the showing.  They sold it.  Now that was easy, $52,500 split between the two of them.  What was hard was the ten years it took to build this service so that there was a critical mass so they could meet.  It is happening now and often.   The more people that learn how to work information the better the opportunities are for everyone.  It is a very good win win situation.  If time is money to you, then you are crazy not to be placing your information on this service.  Over 40 primary transactions that we know of were generated recently.  This does not include all the listings members obtain as a result of this service that were sold in other ways that are in the hundreds!  No matter where in the world you are, you will benefit.   It is just a matter of time and you learning how to work it properly and we will teach you.

May, 1999 The statistics do not reflect the number of people that now receive EMail directly of listings posted on this service.  There are now hundreds of reports that members are receiving calls and contacts within hours or a few days of placing information on this service.   Virtually every member that I know of who has placed information within the last few months are receiving responses.  The members who have not modified their information in the last 90 days may not receive great results.  There are two reasons for this: 1.  Many people work the latest listings and get so busy they never get to the bottom half of the database.  2.  If a listing has not been modified recently, then it would not have had the advantage of the circulation of the EMail Mailing Lists.  These lists are growing daily so that modified a listing 30-45 days from now receives a circulation greater than today.  This service is growing to serve and benefit you.  If you have any suggestions or enhancements or comments of any kind, we would very much like to hear them.  You will find in many cases we can act very quickly to implement ideas.  Please do send us your comments.

April, 1999
May I suggest Executive Members print out the January statistics below.  This is best done with a color printer.  There are charts which show the average number of hits per hour, per day, activity times of the day, countries of the world where the hits are coming from, etc.  This is very powerful when used in listing presentations (along with lists of buyers wants). Non member  brokers do not have this kind of exposure.   There is not one individual company web site that receives over 100,000 hits per month for commercial real estate information.  So your information when placed here receives the most traffic and hits and this means business for you.  After 10 years of building databases of people who deal in commercial real estate we believe they are the best hits.  This helps your clients achieve the best possible price and terms and frees them up to get on with their plans. 

In the first chart you will see the maximum number of hits per hour - around 1,500. I remember having 10 lines in our office, 5 of which were an online system, years ago before the internet.  We could handle 5 people on line in one hour.  Real estate boards with 100 lines could handle 100 on line in one hour.  It's almost magic what can now be done.

In the third chart you will see hits per day.  I actually monitor that to see the traffic.  If one did not see these stats you simply would not know if there were only 100 hits per month or 100,000.  You could have a beautiful web site, but no one may be visiting it.  You have to plug in to the traffic.  When people search in search engines they are returned 25,000 responses.  People do not have the time to go through search engines to find one needle in a hay stack.  They do find out about high traffic information sites and then visit often or receive information by email.

The next chart is a red bar chart that shows the times of the day when most activity occurs.  I believe if you are going to add, modify, or delete your listings or conduct research, it is best done before 11:30am in the morning Toronto time. Once the west coast gets on the internet there are over 100,000,000 people getting on line and I believe that is slowing things down.  During the day just be a little more patient until Mr. Bill Gates and others speed things up.

Go now to the bottom of the January stats page and you will see different countries of the world accessing the site. Nicaragua is the last country.  Start going up the page.  You will see Malaysia for instance.  One of our Eastern Ontario brokers and a CCIM for instance sold a resort to . . . people from Malaysia.  If a person, a prospective buyer or seller,  gets on the internet in your area, no matter where in the world you are, they can find your information on this service!  That is our goal to have everyone in the world in commercial real estate visit us periodically.  When they do, your information better be there or you just missed out on making a deal and you wouldn't even know it.

It is like leaving the front door of your office open 24hr. per day and having people coming in the front door even during the wee hours of the morning to look at your information.

The stories and success's of members and non members continue to inspire us.  We would like your success story to be one of them.

There are other services that are free but one only has so much time to place information.  That is why our email services, (once you place a have or want it gets emailed out to thousands), are about to send information to other list services and news groups shortly to these other free services. It is like a one stop service bureau that distributes your information throughout the industry and the world. You can be assured that you have the best possible exposure and you will learn a marketing plan that maximizes your opportunities to do business. 

We appreciate the opportunity to work with you to serve your needs.

Your comments, suggestions always appreciated.

March, 1999
Over 65% of the over 100,000 hits per month come from the USA and the rest of the world.

This information that you are reading is coming from a computer in New York City.  It is a $40,000 computer system with a $40,000 per month connection to the internet.  We do not pay that much as we share with other corporations such as the Honda Corporation and others.  The reason we locate it there is that it is closest place to the four major internet backbones of the world.  This provides for what we think is the fastest possible access at this time in the world for you.

We actually have six computers on the internet doing different things as well as six computers in the office.  The moment you place a Have or Want on the service, not only does it reside in a database that is receiving these hits and is search able, but instantly and automatically the service generates an email to another computer with an EMailing List Service on it. Anyone in the world can subscribe to this service . . . free. See Free EMailing List Services in the top frame.  People receive copies of your listing within 15 minutes to an hour!  It is really quite incredible how this has been done!  It is the most comprehensive set of list services in the world and is designed to add and grow as we tailor the system to the different markets and countries of the world which you are a part of.  This service is a culmination of almost 10 years of design and growing pains to provide the absolute very best in delivery of just the right information at the right time to help you generate a qualified response for your information.

For many offices this will be the service that provides the ultimate in networking and we invite you to participate.  It is only a nominal yearly fee that provides direct access advertising to the world.

We continue to be inspired by all the successes of not only Executive Members but the public who benefits the most.   We always appreciate your suggestions as this service is designed to help you.  We provide one month free service to any suggestions which are implemented.

February, 1999
January saw a milestone in over 100,000 hits in one month.  I want to thank all the people especially members who had the faith and confidence in me to grow this service.  They are to be commended to have the foresight to be on the leading edge when others were and many still are skeptical that the internet and information services can produce worthwhile results in the commercial real estate field.  Additionally I would like to thank all the members who have contributed with their ideas for the betterment of the industry.  After all it is you the people who read this that benefit from this service.  I appreciate the opportunity to serve you and look forward to continued growth.  I continue to be inspired by all the successes of the members and others with over 30 transactions that we know of in the last several months.  I am gratified by the gradual acceptance by many as a major center in the commercial real estate industry for the networking of information.

January, 1999
Now over 80,000 hits per month as of last month and many deals being reported.  Upgrades include the most extensive Mailing List Services (subscribe/unsubscribe by category and area) in the world for commercial real estate, the FSBO area is the next initiative and it will be searchable by members in the same way that the public area is searchable.  Assuming all FSBO plazas in Ontario are placed there, any member with a buyer could simply contact the owners directly.  Additionally search parameters have been added as well as the recent upgrade in design.

December, 1998 For the first time over 4,000 hits in one day and over 100 hits in one hour.  But the even more important is the introduction of the new mailing list services feature introduced Dec. 2/98 and unveiled at The Real Estate Show at the Metro Toronto Convention Center.  Now for the first time there are category and area choices.  No matter where in the world you are, you can pick a category and receive Haves and Wants by email within minutes of them being placed by Executive Members of ICI World.  This makes for the fastest delivery of commercial real estate information in the world.  Many find it not necessary to visit the web site.  They receive their information by . . . email, timely, efficient and pertinent.  Another major tool in your information tool box.

November, 1998 Now over 70,000 hits as of October, 1998. We have now undertaken two major initiatives.  You will see them shortly.  No matter where in the world you do business, the service will soon deliver just the information that you want within minutes/hours of it becoming available on this service.  These will be delivered by email to you.  To subscribe to the service will be free.  To place information that is distributed through this service and have it available in the public area that is receiving over 70,000 hits per month requires an Executive Membership.  There is also a FSBO or private area.  We will soon be able to collect all the private for sale by owners in the world in searchable databases.  Executive Members will be able to search this area privately.  New design changes will be coming soon.  I am personally very inspired by the many brokers, salespeople and members of the public who have shared success stories with me.  It will happen for you too.  The market reach is a potential 90,000,000 people and growing dramatically.  This is certainly one major place in the world that all people interested in commercial real estate check out from time to time.  You just have to make sure your information is here when they do visit.  You should close on a showing and you can be into a transaction very quickly.

October, 1998 This service has taken on a life of its own.  The main computer is now located in New York.  It is a $40,000 computer with a $40,000/month connection to the internet.  We don't pay that much, we share it with other companies such as the Honda Corporation and others.  It provides direct connections to four major backbones of the world and reduces the number of hops required for you to receive and place information.  Our engineers some from the Nortel corporation are doing a magnificent job.  This service is the fastest in the world that I know of.  If anyone can think of anyway faster, better, easier, cheaper, please let me know, we are always on the lookout for new ideas for the benefit of the industry and our membership.

September, 1998 Over 65,000 hits.  65% of the hits come from the USA and the rest of the world.  A resort in Eastern Ontario sold to people from Malaysia,  deals within one's own marketplace, and many more examples of this are occurring.  Sign up for the latest listings by EMail.  You don't even have to get on the internet.  Just check your email once per day and get all the new listings coming on line.  Or use the Backups and download the whole database and read it off-line.  You do not have to be on the internet! Don't hesitate to contact us if you would like assistance.  That's our specialty.

August, 1998 August actually reached over 60,000 hits.  Your information is only one click away from any one of them.  However it really is higher than this.  This is because we show you how to receive the information without being on the internet.  You can receive every listing for instance by email.  You should however have a copy of Eudora Pro the latest Commercial Version that provides for filtering.  This allows you to set up mailboxes for apartment buildings, shopping centers, etc.  You then set up filters on the incoming mail to sort them automatically into their appropriate mailboxes.  You literally can collect all the haves and wants from the world and have them sorted on your computer neatly.  Listings are emailed within 10 minutes of them becoming available.  You do not have to visit the web site with your browser.  A membership is as low as $17/mo. for the first year.  This is literally the fastest delivery of commercial real estate information in the world that I know of.  People start receiving calls within 15 minutes of placing information! There are more enhancements and services on the way.  If you have any suggestions please do not hesitate to contact us.  There are other ways to receive information as well such as the backup files, and more. One icon on your desktop can produce the database on your computer "without being on the internet."

July, 1998 We now receive more hits (readership) from the USA than from Canada. The total being about 50,000 per month.
Additionally we circulate information in 20 other ways to over 40,000 people for every single have and want placed. This includes fax multi cast, email multi cast, Compuserve, commercial real estate networks, and much more.

June, 1998 Now as many as 3,000 hits in one day! The benefit is that people are only one click away from your information.
May, 1998 Over 49,000 hits.
April, 1998 Over 36,000 hits.
March, 1998 Over 30,000 hits.
February, 1998 The statistics from Feb 1-5 are not accurate as the new server was being set up. February 6th, 1998 was the  day the new $40,000 server was activated complete with upgraded software and faster T3 connections.
January, 1998
December, 1997
November, 1997
October, 1997
September, 1997

I like reading the Max hits per day, Average hits/day, Max hits per hour, Average hits/hour. These are all in the first table. Also in each of the above pages and after the pie chart of countries accessing the site is Daily Hits Per Day with the day of the month listed and the number of hits. It is interesting to see hits increasing and decreasing depending on workdays, holidays, etc.

Sites

Each request made to the server comes from a unique 'site', which can be referenced by a name or ultimately, an IP address. The 'sites' number shows how many unique IP addresses made requests to the server during the reporting time period. This DOES NOT mean the number of unique individual users (real people) that visited, (that number would be higher, multiple users on one computer such as in a real estate brokers office) which is impossible to determine using just logs and the HTTP protocol (however, this number might be about as close as you will get).

Statistics at www.iciworld.com

In each of these files, make sure you read Total Transfers by Client Domain. It is rather interesting. It shows the interest and readership visiting our sites. In fact when you as a member go on a listing presentation you can represent all these countries have access to your information and are visiting regularly.

It is particularly interesting to view Total Transfers by Client Domain.

• Each "request" is a page of information read.
• In October/96 there was over 16,000 pages of information read.
• In November/96 there was over 30,000 pages of information read!
• In February/97 there was over 34,000 pages of information read!
• In March/97 there was over 39,000 pages of information read!

There are many pages on this web site and our other site that receive responses directly without going through our home pages and tallying on the home counts. We also circulate information in 14 other ways that reach upwards of 100,000's of people throughout the year. As long as you place information with The Market ICI World Real Estate Network, you can be assured someone interested will see it sooner or later.
I also have been conducting searches on altavista. The following are the results. I searched the words commercial real estate in January 1995 and I received 50 responses. I searched the words commercial real estate in January 1996 and I received 200,000 responses. I searched the words commercial real estate in January 1997 and I received 2,000,000 responses. I searched the words commercial real estate in June 1997 and I received 3,000,000 responses. I searched the words commercial real estate in December 1997 and I received 11,000,000 responses.  AltaVista found about 59045 Web pages for you of the exact three words together Dec/98

Wow! You will see the dramatic growth of one 180 day period of a growth of 8,000,000 for the words commercial real estate. It is all happening now.

Now responses using information services depends a lot on how you design your information. Hopefully you have crafted your information in a way that not only interests qualified people but markets the idea they should contact you. If your subject line is vague or lacks information many people are just too busy to follow up on things. When you are a member we have several important concepts to share with you to show you how to take advantage of information services and strategic marketing techniques.

It is this training and education, one on one, over the phone in your office while you are in front of your computer on the internet and in our circulars to members, that can make the difference in many cases from getting positive responses. Like we say, you can have a jet outside your door, but if you do not know how to fly it, you aren't going anyplace.

To build this site and all attendant services has been eight years in the making. Additionally we have six months of new programming in the works coming on line periodically to enhance the capabilities to help you make money in industrial, commercial and investment real estate.

It is your Have/Want Information Link to the World

I personally do not know of any other commercial real estate information service receiving as many hits per day as this site making it Canada's Largest Commercial Real Estate Information Service and one of the top sites in the world today. We publish our statistics. Without knowing these stats you would not know the amount of action and activity that is taking place. Another beautiful looking site could be getting only 10 hits per month, doing very little business and you would not know it.

These statistics can also be helpful in your listings presentations. Just because someone is on the internet does not mean they are getting hits or traffic for their information! You can point this out if you are competing for a listing with figures to back it up. Almost all members report more contacts through this site in conjunction with their company site as more productive than just their company site. If any of you disagree with this statement please notify me.

Another useful piece of information is the time of day that things get busy. If you have a choice, you might choose early morning if you are in the Mid West or on the East Coast to place your information and to do your searches. It might be faster. I find things slow down once the West Coast and 100,000,000 people begin doing business in their morning.

We actually are now trying to reduce the statistics!  What I mean is this:  why not download the database and read it off-line?  Many members are now doing this.  Why not subscribe to the email mailing lists and using filtering provisions in an email program to place these listings into mailboxes designated for shopping centers, apartment buildings, etc. for example.  Some of our members do not even visit the web site.  They literally have a complete database of all the haves and wants in the world filed neatly into mailboxes in their email program.  You can do searches in these mailboxes!

Now this reduces statistics, increases readership and makes information easier to access for you.  It also will eventually reduce the load on our servers.  We will be placing this information on all five continents of the world to make it even easier to stay completely up to date with the latest information in your area.

Our latest reports show many positive results with one member broker receiving 12 calls within 24 hours for an apartment building for instance and a sale resulting and closing within 90 days generating commissions of $89,000.  Many report that it is now an essential service of credible contacts.

The statistics are actually higher than reported since people can collect information in other ways from this service other than hits!

Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

If you are responding by EMail please identify yourself so I know who I will be responding to. Thank you.

Sincerely
Gary Nusca, CCIM
The Market ICI World Commercial Real Estate Network
416-214-4875
garynusca@iciworld.net
www.iciworld.net

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