What's New?

The following is a list of the major changes to this web over the last decade, with the most recent changes shown first:

What's on the horizon?: Such things as delivery of more specific information and expansion of email list services by state and province and business categories, things to make things easier, notices emailed to members of how many times their personal listings are being read, and about 30 more enhancements and upgrades, on line training programs, live marketing session grouping of listings for associations, companies, world database of members searchable by specialty and market area, offline production of listings, automatic delivery of the complete database to your computer, upgrading of design since many people now view information on their television, and more!

July/2000: The addition of Sid Hebscher in Marketing. Sid has had many wonderful years in business and is a delight to talk to and get to know.
June/2000: Another milestone. The addition of Secure Credit Card Transactions. The service will now become more automated such as: . automatic notices to members to renew, automatic upgrading of service security access levels upon a secure credit card transaction providing for instant access to all the services.
May/2000: Now reached over 200,000 hits per month. And sales are being reported regularly.
March/2000: This was a milestone of sorts. After more than one year of planning and searching we changed our server and software. This was a major change. With this change the average response time is now 4.9 seconds for searches. The program is multi threaded meaning thousands of people can access the database at once instead of waiting in line while one is being processed.

May/99: Set up group functionality. The service can now accept databases of listings from companies and associations. Provides for both company and individual service. Company administrators can globally manage the listings and members. We welcome Royal LePage Commercial Real Estate Inc.

Entered into an agreement to help market Virtual Tours by World Vista.

May/99: Made it easier to see all member web pages.; Go to Member Links, click on Executive Members, sort by Home Page
You can enter all kinds of search criteria.; Change the sort on field to Home Page, type in Ontario in the province field and search.
May/99: Created this What's New page.

April 21/99: When you modify a listing after 30 days, it also now goes to the EMailing List Service.

April 7/99: Added the FSBO area. Everyone in the world can add their have or want free. Only Executive Members can read this information. The FSBO area is now searchable by category and key word as well as the latest. There is a limited view of this area for the public. FSBO area.

March/99: Made it easier to modify and delete a members listings. Click on Member Links, log in, click on My Listings. Choices to modify/delete are beside each listing.

February/99: Added a completely separate For Lease area. Now you can search for an area, city and a lease category and sort them in many ways including square footage. You can preselect with a minium and maximum square footage. Try choosing industrial buildings over 10,000 sq.ft. in Ontario, sorted by area (sq.ft.) in descending order; it gives you the highest ones first.

January/99: Added EMailing List Services - when a member places a have or want message on the service, not only does it reside in a searchable database but instantly and automatically a copy of it is sent by email to another computer that is the server of email. People can subscribe and receive a copy of listings by email. People can tailor these email services to deliver only the category and area they prefer.; January saw a milestone in over 100,000 hits in one month. January, 1999

Note:: All the while we are building a database of over 10,000 name of people who deal in commercial real estate. We continue to fax multicast over 4,000 every three weeks or so.

December/98: Had a major design change with the implentation of frames and bullets. Very well received by members and the public. You can select Full Screen on both the Member Links or Search Have/Want Information choices.
Statistics 88926

November/98: Backups of the database are created daily at 6am and made available on line. One can download a business category or the complete database with contact names and numbers. It provides not only another way to obtain information in the case of other ways being temporarily unavailable but also is powerful in listing presentations. http://www.iciworld.net/real_estate/

October/98: Added ability when doing a key word search to sort by price. Try a key word search. This is good to find all the properties in your city (ie: by location) or specific business type and sort them by price. Type gas in the subject line and sort by price. Type your city in the subject line and sort by price. You could also type in Power for power of sales and sort by price.
Statistics 70,139 The main computer is now located in New York.

September/98: Added ability for members to place a link such as "Commercial Database" on their own web pages so that when people visit their own web page and click on that link, it pulls their listings off of ICI World and displays them on the screen of the viewer. It's like having ones own $50,000 database right from their own home page. All that is needed is to add a link to their home page. For a sample see: http://www.northernwebsites.com/gbrunet/
September, 1998 Over 65,000 hits.

August/98: August, 1998 August actually reached over 60,000 hits.

Statistics through 1998: May, 1998 Over 49,000 hits.
April, 1998 Over 36,000 hits.
March, 1998 Over 30,000 hits

Sepember/97

Due to the overwhelming reception and quick transition, we dropped the CIBBS on line system in favour of the internet. Members could now add, modify and delete their own listings on the internet for the first time and have them instantly available to the world. We had ten telephone lines at this time and were able to cut out five of them.

July/97

Started another internet site with a searchable database engine.

Statistics through 1996-1997

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!
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.

January/95

Placed first information onto the internet. At that time when one did a search for commercial real estate on the internet there were 25 responses. We were hand entering every listing and creating hundreds of separate html pages.

Very rough years trying to convince people to network on line computers.

August/91: Started an online Commercial Investment Bulletin Board System (CIBBS) with the idea to assist members of the Central Canada CCIM chapter network in a much more efficient manner.