Trulia Pro Alejandro

Hey Wolfgang,

At Trulia we think of ourselves very differently from Realtor.com. But we do offer another service to promote listings and your website. This service is called Trulia Pro and it differs from Realtor.com in price and product. The product costs $39/month and is a month to month product. Unlike competitive products, Trulia believes you should pay for the value you receive. If Trulia is not providing value to you, there is no need to have us lock you into a year long contract.

One of the products included in Trulia Pro is what we call featured listings. This allows your properties to rotate in the top three in relevant searches. Statistically we have seen over the past six months, Trulia Pro listings are visited 4-7 times more often than regular listings on Trulia, thus giving significant exposure to you listings.

Another product included in Trulia Pro is called Local Spotlight. This allows you to create a custom advertisement and target it to up to 20 zip codes, cities, or neighborhoods around the country. One good example is an agent named Mark Peschel http://www.trulia.com/voices/profile/real_estate_pro-San_fra… who advertises his first time home buyer workshops on Trulia. He targets this to the city as a whole and specific zip codes to fill his classes every month.

Overall, we are pretty excited about the services and would definitely encourage you to check out Trulia Pro! - Wed Oct 22 2008, 09:34

Thanks for your question! We're always looking for good testimonials of Trulia Pro. We've published a few on our blog http://www.truliablog.com/2008/07/01/trulia-pro-success-stor… and there are others elsewhere http://activerain.com/blogsview/739711/Trulia-Pro-Wow-This.

However, the metrics on our site show that realtors who use Trulia Pro get 4-7 times more visitors to their site from Trulia and can receive ten of thousands of views for their local spotlight advertisement. One of the things that helps lower the barrier for Trulia Pro is that the contract is month to month and only $39/month. You can try the product out and see if you like it!

Good luck and let us know what you think! - Tue Oct 21 2008, 10:56

Hello Rusty,

Thanks for your question here. The email sent out to which I believe you refer offers a one month rebate code. What the system requires if for you to enter your billing information into the Trulia system. Upon this action you will be charged $39 for your first month of Trulia Pro service.

However, with entry of your rebate code, within 24 hours of signing up you will see that your credit card has a credit back to it for the same $39. Net, you should have a free month of Trulia Pro service.

If the product works for you, you can keep the service and Trulia will bill you the next month for the service. If you do not like the service and it does not work, you can cancel at any point.

Hope this helps and I hope you give Trulia Pro a shot. Lots of people have been having success with Trulia Pro, check out what some of our early users think below. - Thu Sep 4 2008, 13:57

Hey Patricia,

Great question!

At Trulia we actually have a few free products and products for little cost. The first free product is called Brand Your Listings where you can add your photo and contact info to your listings which are already on Trulia. To learn more check out this page: http://www.trulia.com/agents/brand_your_listings/

The second product you might want to learn about is Trulia Pro, here you can increase traffic to your listings on Trulia by 4X in getting them to the top of the search results on Trulia. You also get a ad placement on Trulia for yourself as part of the product. Learn more here: http://www.trulia.com/truliapro

The third product you are actually already using! Trulia Voices has worked well for many agents in receiving more business. Check out these stories here: http://www.wellcomemat.com/home/networks/view2/5ED5288430/A7…

Cheers, Alejandro - Wed Aug 6 2008, 18:10

Sure thing, if anyone would like to attend a Trulia webinar on Voices and other Trulia tools, check out the upcoming webinars here:

Marketing Advantages of Trulia and Trulia Voices:

March 12th @ 9am PST (Register - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/477122490)
March 19th @ 2pm PST (Register - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/969239751)
March 20th @ 11am PST (Register - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/554656878) - Mon Mar 10 2008, 13:28