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Icovia Releases Version 5 of Icovia Business Edition for the Furnishings Industry

100+ new features in 2D online room planning capability boost lead generation for manufacturers and retailers

Londonderry, NH (January 24, 2008) -- Icovia today released Icovia® Business Edition 5, the latest version of its online, interactive 2D room planning and sales lead generation tool for furnishings manufacturers and retailers. Icovia Business Edition version 5 offers over a hundred new features to enhance the customer experience in designing and visualizing their interiors with furnishings products, as well as improved reporting and lead follow-up tools for the seller.

"The home furnishings industry overall has recognized the value of incorporating web marketing into its communications mix for reaching customers," commented Steve Street, CEO of Icovia. "Icovia Business Edition is currently built into the websites of over 380 retailers and manufacturers, and launched by more than 20,000 consumers daily. The 100+ new features in version 5 deliver the enhancements that are most in demand. Shoppers are empowered with an even easier-to-use interface offering considerably more design options, while simultaneously placing greater emphasis on the retailer's products. We've also made it easier for sellers to follow up on leads and zero in on those products that most interest the customer."

Highlights of Icovia Business Edition version 5 include:

• Faster performance. Version 5 has been re-written to optimize response time and usability.
• Enhanced customer experience. Icovia now offers a library of over 1,300 furniture and household symbols that can easily be dropped into a floor plan. New design tools allow shoppers to design rooms and experiment with textures and patterns for floor surfaces, create curved walls, or even hang photos, among other options. Once spaces are designed, customers can "furnish" their rooms, and make direct requests for product information in the space planning tool. Users can even print detailed product brochures, along with selected promotions, coupons with the retailers store information.
• Improved sales lead generation, follow through and reporting. Icovia now offers a 'dashboard' that reports how customers are using Icovia, including their time spent planning and the specific products they selected. Whenever a customer goes to save a floor plan, he/she is prompted to first register. Immediately, both the contact info and saved plan are made readily available to the retailer. Monthly activity reports make it easy to forward leads to marketing and sales teams, helping them close more deals.

Availability
Icovia Business Edition 5.0 is immediately available. All parties interested in a live demo and test drive are welcomed to do so at our showroom at the World Market Center in Las Vegas next week in Building A Suite 536. For more information and an online demo, please contact us via telephone (603) 206-6206 or email: info@icovia.com. A live demo will be available on www.icovia.com in the near future.

About Icovia

Icovia was founded in 2000 and has become the industry leading online room planning solution for retailers, manufacturers, interior designers and homeowners. The Icovia Room Planner simultaneously delivers value to both businesses and consumers by providing powerful, easy-to-use interior design tools that combine free usage with registration-based features to identify potential buyers as actionable contacts. Icovia's technology serves a number of markets, including home furnishings, real estate, and interior design. Current customers include La-Z-Boy, Kohler, Nautilus, GMAC Real Estate and William-Sonoma. Icovia is headquartered in Londonderry, NH. For more information, visit www.icovia.com or call 1-603-206-6206.

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For More Information, Contact:

Press Contact:
Becky Stevens, Virtual Marketing LLC
713 444-6860
Email: Becky.Stevens@virtualmarketing-pr.com         

Company Contact:
Steve Street, Icovia
603 206-5205
Steve.Street@icovia.com

Icovia® To Launch Icovia 3D at Las Vegas Market

Gives Home Furnishings Prospective Buyers the Power to Visualize Their Interiors in Realistic 3D

Londonderry, NH -- January 24, 2008 -- Icovia will launch a 3D version of its leading interactive, online room planner at Las Vegas Market. Icovia® 3D helps home furnishings retailers and manufacturers increase their website traffic and sales by empowering shoppers with an instant online ability to "furnish" their homes with products from the manufacturer's online catalog.

Commented Steve Street, CEO of Icovia: "Icovia 3D helps retailers and manufacturers sell more product for three reasons. First, it gives shoppers more visual information, which increases confidence in their buying decisions and leads to faster orders. Secondly, retailers can promote products as bundles and bolster their bottomline by selling whole rooms of furniture. Third, this tool inspires repeat visits, and our research shows that customer loyalty increases with repeat visits."

Icovia 3D provides online shoppers with all of the capabilities they need to design and visualize their interiors in both 2D and 3D views. Once Icovia 3D is added to a retailer's or manufacturer's website, prospective buyers can create rooms of various shapes and sizes, and then drop in products from an online catalog. Users are further engaged by their ability to customize these interiors with selected fabrics and finishes, room lighting, wall colors, and flooring. Icovia 3D ultimately gives the shopper the power to make intelligent buying decisions while simultaneously alerting the retailer or manufacturer to their most qualified prospective buyers.

Availability

Icovia 3D is immediately available. All parties interested in a live demo and test drive are welcomed to do so at our showroom at the World Market Center in Las Vegas next week in Building A suite 536. For more information and an online demo, please contact us via telephone (603) 206-6206 or email: info@icovia.com. A live demo will be available on www.icovia.com in the near future.

About Icovia

Icovia was founded in 2000 and has become the industry's leading online room planning solution for retailers, manufacturers, interior designers and homeowners. The Icovia Room Planner simultaneously delivers value to businesses and consumers by providing powerful, easy-to-use interior design tools that combine free usage with registration-based features to identify potential buyers as actionable contacts. Icovia's technology serves a number of markets including home furnishings, real estate, and interior design. Current customers include La-Z-Boy, Kohler, Nautilus, GMAC Real Estate and William-Sonoma. Icovia is headquartered in Londonderry, NH. For more information, visit www.icovia.com or call 1-603-206-6206.

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For More Information:

Press Contact:
Becky Stevens, Virtual Marketing LLC
713 444-6860
Email: Becky.Stevens@virtualmarketing-pr.com

Company Contact:                                                      
Steve Street, Icovia
603 206-5205
Steve.Street@icovia.com

Link to free version of Icovia Space Planner

Recently at The Garage Journal a member named Jackalope asked:

"Someone posted a link to icovia.com the other day that put you where you could get a free download to work with. I went there and it was great but now I can't find it again. Can someone help? Thanks!"

I thought it was a good question and wanted to share with you teh reply I posted:

"Hi Jackalope, there are two links you might be interested in:

This link for our Design Edition product will let you plan and design for free but you need to register and pay to save and print your plan. Icovia is normally $29 per month but this code, SSTREET, that you can use at sign-up will reduce the fee to $19 per month.

You can also visit the websites of any of our customers and gain access to a simpler version that allows you to save and print at no cost. A couple of these customers and their planners include:
EQ3
Branded Garage Systems
FBI

Keep your eye out at Icovia.com in the next few weeks as we announce a new version of our product and another product that adds another 'dimension' to planning.

I hope this helps and you find Icovia valuable.
Thanks!
Steve Street
Icovia"