Archive for the 'Trulia' Category

Trulia Pro Pros and Cons: Ad Network Review

Real estate search engine Trulia just released an ad offering. It’s open to anyone, not just real estate agents.
Here’s my review of the Pros and Cons:
Pros

Unlimited featured listings: the main benefit for listing agents, in my opinion & worth the price of admission for these agents
Affordable: $39 month or $348 year
No minimum contract
3 […]

Zillow v. Trulia Polls: One for Pros, One for Home Buyers

There has been a lot of talk lately, good and bad, about these 2 high profile real estate websites, Zillow and Trulia. We all agree that talk is cheap. As a working real estate professional, you ought to know what works and what doesn’t, so if and when there comes a time […]

Trulia Using Google Street View to Enhance Real Estate Search

Trulia has added Google Street View to help provide a better viewing experience to its users. Now, visitors to Trulia can “virtually” walk the neighborhood and get a sense of parking, views, neighboring homes, stores and other neighborhood amenities, as well as all the unzillowables that are not found in raw data, like […]

Trulia v. Zillow: Who’s Hot, Who’s Not

According to The Industry Standard’s post entitled “10 Net Services that will succeed and 10 that will probably fail“, Trulia is hot and Zillow is not. Is Zillow really going to the dogs (wink)?
In the words of David Gibbons of Zillow: OUCH!

Rich Barton and the gang shouldn’t feel too bad. They […]

Trulia Taxi Challenge

1. What do they think of the Trulia ad?
2. Have they heard any passengers mention the ad?
3. Do they think people pay attention to the ads?
Find us and we’ll get your story and put it together in one cohesive piece.
Taxi…………………….

Advertising Your Online Brand Offline: Because Marketing Shouldn’t Suck

The Blog Tour taught us the importance of online businesses reaching people offline. Most of the people we interviewed had never heard of online real estate brands like Redfin, Zillow or Trulia — even in their home cities! (one lady in Seattle thought Zillow was a dance). Wow, were these companies wearing blinders? […]

Real Estate Myths or What I Did on My Summer Vacation

In the Gospel according to NAR, 77% of buyers use the internet to search for homes. This stat has become sacred dogma, incessantly chanted by MSM and the bloggerati. It provides the philosophical foundation for putting your listings on all manner of websites. It requires you do penance to upgrade to […]

Heavy Traffic: Trulia Top Referrer to Major Real Estate Firms

 
According to its blog (citing traffic bean counter, Hitwise), Trulia  was one of the top 3 websites referring traffic to 12 major residential real estate broker firms nationwide last month (August 18- September 15, 2007) .  The others in the top 3– some guys named Google and Yahoo!
According to the post, the Trulians outpaced fellow […]

Deep Throat: Prudential Kicks Trulia Out of Real Estate Tradeshow

A Deep Throat at the show just alerted us that Trulia has been kicked out of the Prudential Real Estate Trade Show in sunny San Diego, California. Apparently, they were slated to be an exhibitor, and possibly a sponsor, but got the boot about 20 minutes prior to the opening. Our source further says the […]

Trulia Launches Graphic Tools: PlotorNot and Truliaholic

Trulia has just launched two interesting data mashups, PlotorNot and Truliaholic.
PlotorNot will graph any correlation between two factors you choose to compare. PlotorNot merges data for cities across the US with a diverse group of demographic variables (crime, age, rainfall, sex offenders, aver. list price, etc.) to answer questions such as: “Is […]