ICIWORLD GLOBAL REAL ESTATE NETWORKING — IDX LINKS

Your Website. Your Customers. Your Leads.

Turn YOUR real estate website into a worldwide networking and lead-generation resource.

Give customers more than MLS®. Give them Haves, Wants and opportunities from a global network of real estate professionals.

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1. Put Global Real Estate Networking on YOUR Website

ICIWorld IDX links, often called Widgets or Exclusives, allow participating real estate brokers and salespeople to display searchable Haves and Wants from other professionals through their own websites.

Visitors can explore commercial, residential, industrial, investment, land and business opportunities, including information that may not be available on MLS®.

MLS® shares listings. ICIWorld’s Information Listing Service (ILS) helps share opportunities worldwide.

Once installed, the IDX links provide automatically updated information without requiring you to build or maintain a worldwide database yourself.

2. Teach Customers to Search YOUR Website — So the Inquiries Come to YOU

One of the most important benefits of ICIWorld IDX is how customer inquiries are handled.

While your ICIWorld membership is active, inquiries submitted through your member IDX links are designed to reach YOU, the website owner.

When customers search ICIWorld.com directly, they may contact the original posting broker instead.

That is why we recommend teaching customers to use the ICIWorld IDX searches on YOUR website.

3. Put YOUR Website on Every Customer’s Phone

Imagine 100, 500 or 1,000 customers having your real estate website available with one tap on their phones.

Help customers, past clients and prospects add your website to their iPhone or Android Home Screen, with their permission.

Then show them how to search the ICIWorld Exclusives on your website.

This gives customers a convenient reason to return when they are buying, selling, leasing, investing or referring someone who needs real estate assistance.

The shortcut costs nothing to create and can help keep your website readily accessible.

OUR GOAL FOR EVERY MEMBER

4. Learn to Find Buyers and Sellers in 10 Seconds!

We want ICIWorld members to be among the sharpest and most effective professionals at finding real estate buyers and sellers.

Learn how to search the worldwide database quickly. Demonstrate buyer requirements to potential sellers and available opportunities to buyers.

Try searching for a dentist, restaurant, hotel, shopping centre, industrial building or apartment building.

Our goal is for members to produce a relevant list of potential opportunities in approximately 10 seconds, where matching information is available.

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5. Teach Customers How to Search Your IDX Links

Do not simply install IDX links and hope customers discover how to use them. Demonstrate the searches on YOUR website.

Keyword: Enter terms such as dental, restaurant, hotel, industrial, apartment building or another business or property type.

Have or Want: Choose Have for available opportunities or Want for buyer acquisition requirements and other real estate needs.

Business Category: Select a category when a keyword search is not the best approach.

Price: Sort by price to help narrow or review opportunities.

Any Age: Where the IDX search provides an age filter, choose Any Age to include older information that may still be relevant.

Search features can vary by IDX link configuration. Members should demonstrate the options actually available on their websites.

Members: You can also use the full ICIWorld search system directly to find brokers and network opportunities.

6. Turn Customer Inquiries Into Business or Referrals

When a customer contacts you about a Have or Want displayed on your website, you have several possible ways to help.

✔ Contact the posting broker and arrange cooperation.

✔ Help the customer investigate the opportunity.

✔ Arrange showings and representation where appropriate.

✔ Refer the customer to a qualified broker who specializes in that type of property or geographic area.

✔ Use buyer requirements to demonstrate demand when speaking with potential sellers.

Residential brokers can also develop commercial referral opportunities without having to handle unfamiliar commercial transactions themselves.

Any referral compensation or transaction arrangement must be agreed upon by the appropriate parties and comply with applicable requirements.

7. Protect Your Leads — Keep Your Membership Active

ICIWorld IDX links are designed to direct customer inquiries to the member whose website displays them while the membership is active.

If your membership expires, visitors may be able to click through to the original listing broker instead.

A customer who originally visited YOUR website could then contact another broker, and you might never know that an opportunity was missed.

One lost customer, referral or transaction could represent considerably more than the cost of membership.

Keep your membership active. Keep your website working for you.

8. See Real Broker Websites Using ICIWorld IDX

ICIWorld IDX links have been installed on websites belonging to real estate brokers and salespeople from different companies, including independent brokerages and major real estate brands.

Many use an Exclusives menu item to introduce customers to Haves and Wants beyond their ordinary MLS searches.

Visit the sample website collection, open a participating broker’s website, and look for its Exclusives or ICIWorld search section.

See how a member can offer customers additional choices without building an entire networking database.

9. Easy Installation — Membership, Training and Assistance

Already an ICIWorld member? Request your IDX installation instructions. Forward them to your website designer or website company.

Many website companies install the links without an additional charge. If assistance is required, ICIWorld offers installation support, including a one-time $45 installation option where applicable.

Not a member yet? Explore the $30 month-to-month option or the introductory membership special of $240 for 15 months, subject to current eligibility and terms.

Your membership also provides access to other ICIWorld services, networking resources, education and member benefits.

Members have reported over $1 billion in real estate sales resulting from networking connections. Past results are not a guarantee of future business.

We encourage members to develop at least 15 meaningful Haves and Wants within 90 days and keep their information current.

Don’t Just Have a Real Estate Website. Put It to Work!

Install ICIWorld IDX links. Help customers put YOUR website on their phones. Teach them to search. Learn to find buyers and sellers in seconds.

Your Website. Your Customers. Your Leads.

If you need help with installation, searching or generating opportunities, please make an appointment. We would welcome the opportunity to help.

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