Complete & Optimize Your Trulia Profile

Complete & Optimize Your Trulia Profile

Make your first impression on Trulia count! Creating a profile on Trulia is FREE and it will keep working for you

24/7. It gives you inclusion in our professional directory, allows you to showcase your experience and your listings,

and includes a prominent lead form that makes it easy for buyers and sellers to contact you. Follow this guide to

complete your profile and make sure that it¡¯s primed to grab attention and help you connect with your next client!

Complete the Basics ¨C It¡¯s Easy as 1, 2, 3

1. Signup

If you don¡¯t already have an account on Trulia,

visit to sign up in seconds.

In the next sections we¡¯ll show you how to add recommendations from current clients along with your advice and

opinions to help build your reputation as a local expert.

2. Add Your Photo

Your profile photo appears not just on your

profile, and in our Find a Pro directory, but also

on your listings, Client Listing Reports,

questions and answers, blog posts, Local Ads

and in Quick Connect, and a missing or poor

quality photo gives the impression that you¡¯re

not a serious agent. Make sure your profile

photo is present and tells the story you want it

to tell.

3. Verify Your Email Address

Make the email address where you want to

send leads your primary address and make

sure it¡¯s correct. You can also connect your

Trulia account to Facebook for easy sharing,

and add additional email addresses to help us

automatically connect your listings to your

account.

Add Your Experience & Create the

Ultimate Online Resume

Showcase your real estate experience by adding your

specialties, designations and awards, interests, and past

positions to your page. This is your opportunity to demonstrate why prospective customers should work with you.

Make sure to show off your personality by telling potential

clients who you are in the ¡®About Me¡¯ section.

Update Your Personal Info & Get Primed

to Connect

Edit your personal information to include your full name,

your headline ¨C your tagline or business title ¨C and your

real estate company, along with the locations that you

serve. Make sure your personal information is complete to

help prospective buyers and sellers find you more easily.

You can also add a link to your website or blog, and create

a personalized Trulia URL that you can easily share. Lastly,

add your phone # and check the box that confirms it¡¯s ok

for people to contact you ¨C this will add a prominent lead

form to your profile page.

Homework - 7 Steps to Get You Started

Visit and signup for a Trulia account,

or log into your existing account

Edit your Experience to add your specialties, certifications

& awards and past positions

Edit your profile to upload a photo

Tell people about you in the About Me section

Verify your email address & connect with Facebook

Create a personalized Trulia URL

Edit your Personal Information to add a headline

and all the locations you serve

Manage Your Listings

After completing your profile on Trulia, claim your listings to make sure they are all accounted for, and

that the listing information is correct and comprehensive.

Claim Your Listings

Access the My Listings section of your account. Your listing

may already be claimed for you, but if not, search for your

listings using the property address, MLS ID or your email

address. Once you locate your listing, claim it to add it to

your Trulia account, and to automatically add your contact

information to the property page on Trulia.

If you don¡¯t find your listing on Trulia, you¡¯ll be prompted to

add it to our site. The process is free and easy and your

listing will be live in our search results within fifteen

minutes.

Edit & Enhance Your Listing Information

Once your listing is claimed you can edit it at any time to

correct or update the address, price, details, property

description, status, photos, open house times, and virtual

tour. Review all fields to ensure completeness.

Add additional photos

There¡¯s no limit to the number of photos you can add to

your listing on Trulia, and buyers can sort their results to

show listings with the most photos first, so there¡¯s no

reason to skimp on pictures. You can easily upload them

from your hard drive, or from the web, and you can just

drag and drop to put them in the perfect order.

Update Your Open Home Times

On Trulia buyers can refine their search results to show

open houses scheduled for the present day, upcoming

weekend, or any time in the future. You can add open

houses to one listing at a time, or use Trulia¡¯s open house

calendar to add the dates and times to all your listings and

to view all of your upcoming open homes.

Monitor & Share Your Stats

Select ¡®view all stats¡¯ to track your listing¡¯s performance on

Trulia. We track two main stats and compare them week

over week to help you understand what kind of attention

your listing is generating.

Search Result Views let you know how well your listing

matches buyer search criteria in the area.

Property Detail Views are a tremendous indication of

serious buyer interest in the property.

Send Client Listing Reports

From the Reporting page, or from My Contacts, you can share

these stats with your sellers anytime in a personally

branded and professional Client Listing Reports.

Create a personalized message within the report and select

the ¡®Email Weekly¡¯ option to have it delivered automatically

each week to make sure your clients are always in the loop

and aware that your marketing efforts are making an

impact.

Homework - 7 Steps to Claim & Enhance Your Listings

Visit My Listings to search for unclaimed listings

Add upcoming open house dates and times

Submit your listings if they¡¯re not already on Trulia

Review your listing stats

Verify your listing address, price, details, property

description and status

Setup a Client Listing Report to send to your sellers

Add additional photos and a virtual tour

Get Recommended

Real estate professionals have long since cited word-of-mouth and referrals as one of their primary

sources of business, and Trulia Recommendations provide you with a more efficient way to generate

referrals from your clients and maximize the reach of each recommendation you receive.

Request Recommendations

Add Recommendations

From the Recommendations section of your Trulia

account, you can ask past and current clients, friends and

family members to recommend you and your work on

Trulia. You can send these requests via email or via

Facebook, and you can customize your request.

If you¡¯re tired of having your recommendations spread

across multiple websites and don¡¯t like asking your clients

to leave recommendations on yet another website, we¡¯ve

got the solution for you. On Trulia you can add

recommendations from other sources with ease. To verify

accuracy, Trulia will then email your client for their quick,

one-click approval to post it on your profile.

Enjoy the Benefits

Recommend

Receive Recommendations

After you¡¯ve requested recommendations, there¡¯s no

further work for you to do. Recommendations you receive

are automatically displayed on your Trulia profile and on

Facebook if your clients choose to connect their Trulia

and Facebook accounts.

Badges that showcase the number of recommendations

you¡¯ve received appear next to your profile information

shown on Trulia¡¯s most popular pages including the

¡®Contact local agents¡¯ modules where Trulia Local Ads and

Trulia Pro customers are featured.

Recommendations also affect your rank in our Find a Pro

directory. When a buyer or seller searches for a real estate

professional on Trulia, they will see agents who have been

recommended by their Facebook friends first in their

results. Research shows that when buyers and sellers

discover that they have a personal connection to you, they

are 4 times more likely to use you as their agent.

Homework ¨C Request or Add Recommendations

Access the Request tab in My Recommendations and enter the contact information for the clients you wish to contact

Customize your request and send or click on the ¡®Request with Facebook¡¯ to ask clients already in your network

Access the Add tab in My Recommendations and in the recommendations and client information you want to display

on your Trulia profile

Click on the ¡®Request Verification¡¯ button to send an email to your client so they can approve it with just one click

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