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 ? 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.

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.

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.

Update Your Personal Info & Get Primed to Connect

Edit your personal information to include your full name, your headline ? your tagline or business title ? 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 ? 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 profile to upload a photo Verify your email address & connect with Facebook Edit your Personal Information to add a headline and all the locations you serve

Edit your Experience to add your specialties, certifications & awards and past positions

Tell people about you in the About Me section

Create a personalized Trulia URL

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.

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.

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.

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 Submit your listings if they're not already on Trulia Verify your listing address, price, details, property description and status Add additional photos and a virtual tour

Add upcoming open house dates and times Review your listing stats Setup a Client Listing Report to send to your sellers

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

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.

Add Recommendations

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.

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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.

Enjoy the Benefits

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 ? 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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