@ Jim – Sorry, but we’re not an IDX provider.

@ Ines – Glad to see you on board with Trulia Pro. I see you’re our first early adopter in Miami now. Sweet. Interesting idea to display the number of other advertisers in your geo. All feed back is good. Thanks for your support. We hope we can provide you with some good value.

@ Michael – Hope all is well with you. You can point the link wherever you like. We’re interested in all metrics as well. One other thing to consider, just like a billboard on a highway or Times Square, there are lots of people passing by. On Trulia however, most are targeted to the geo you selected. It’s a great brand building vehicle.

Yes, I misspoke. I said Ines, cause she’s always on my mind , rather than Maureen. My bad Maureen. I wanted to leave a comment yesterday but didn’t have the time….

First of all, thanks so much for trying our Trulia Pro. I see you’re ad for Birmingham, MI and it looks great. Thus far, you are the only one for that area. Which, is a good thing for you. Your face and brand will be seen for virtually all the searches in the geographic areas you selected. Ah, the benefits of being an early adopter

I like your thoughts on the Spotlight Ad – create different ads for different areas. At first, we wanted to make the process as simple as possible to both create and track. We’ll most certainly consider ideas like this one for the future.

Today, we allow unlimited advertisers for each geography. The early adopters will benefit most as they will garner the most impressions for each geography they select – choose up to 20 geographic locations. We will monitor the progress of Trulia Pro closely and improve and enhance as needed.

The great thing for agents whio already have created their Trulia Profile, is that we use some of that profile information to pre-populate your ad. This helps speed up the process for you. However, you have complete control of the ad copy and can make changes anytime to suit your needs.

Congrats of your second prospect via Trulia and good luck on your listing presentation. Those are some lucky home sellers I tell ya

Trulia’s standard operating procedure for listing feeds is meant to provide the best info for the consumer – we may not always get it right, but we find it’s generally the best solution. That said, with Trulia Pro, you can direct consumers anywhere you like from your listings.

Maybe we’ll incorporate Amex at a later date, but for now, their just so expensive

I did check your ad, but only a couple times

Thanks again for some great feedback Maureen.

Rudy
Social Media Guru at Trulia

I would be interested in knowing what your click through rates are after you have had a while to run the campaign. If you’re not doing it already, its pretty easy to set it up as a campaign in the free Google Analytics Software.

I just signed up to Trulia Pro – and I totally agree with you, it would be great if the system would tell you how many other pros we will be sharing a particular spotlight with or maybe give it should have a limit.

I do think it’s great that you can monitor those hits and decide what areas you are getting good results from. I am very optimistic about this and right now I would much rather give marketing dollars to Trulia than Realtor.com

I sincerely wish Trulia would offer cheap or affordable IDX or Vow services. I’d be glad to pay them a fair price. I’ve been looking for an IDX for my website and blog… I checked that dsSearchAgent too.. (They charge TOO much for Massachusetts because they don’t want to pay my “MLSPIN” Provider a $500 “sql fee.. ) and the IDX’s I checked out for the most part can’t hold a candle to Trulia.. and agents wonder why no one goes to their site… Realtor.com’s sites aren’t that bad; but for what you’re getting I think you can do better…

Of course an IDX from Trulia should be geared to help the agent; that means no info on who the other company is if the client signed in.. But can you imagine… Maps, RSS Feeds, etc, etc.. on indiividual agents sites.. Watch the numbers go up, Trulia!

I promise I’ll leave my thoughts on your great post tomorrow…..Sara and I are celebrating our 4 year wedding anniversary……shutting down for the night…….

For Tina and Paula – Get Your free 3 months here: http://www.trulia.com/truliapro/promo/

Offer ends July 31, 2008

Night all…..

Rudy
Social Media Guru at Trulia

Tina in Virginia

I did not see the three month free option – I even looked for a place to put your name:)

I do like Trulia and like you – would like to choose the feed they publish…..you mean they don’t accept AMEX. Hmmmm…

I’ll check it out more – thanks for an excellent review.

I for one will admit that I am not the keeper of information. I am the analyzer of information because of the experience and knowledge that I have. Without that, I’d be a scrambling agent. With that, I’m a successful Real Estate Consultant.

As for Trulia climbing up the Google ladder, I think they’ve earned it. I will also admit that although I think I have a great website and that it does produce results for me, I am really no match for anyone who works on web development and marketing full-time (however those who simply want my money to produce me a mediocre site are no match for my drive and passion.) If you can’t beat ‘e,. join ‘em!

If Trulia’s Google presence bothers you, use a “no follow” tag when you link to them. Add it into the link code. It looks like this:

rel=”no-follow”

Just add the no-follow part. I do, however, believe in giving credit where credit is due. If you use their RSS feeds, widgets, etc, don’t you think you should make sure to leave their branding and give them a link somewhere?

Anyway if you want more on that, I recommend reading Is Google Taking Over the World? where I ramble much further into this sub-topic.
Anyway, I had a post on this topic of Maureen’s great post.

Interesting image Thanks for some really great perspective. I’ll jump back to leave a more thoughtful comment after the radio show on real estate radio at 4:20pm today – http://www.truliablog.com/2008/06/19/trulia-on-real-estate-radio-usa-today-420pm-est/

Rudy
Social Media Guru at Trulia