It’s been almost two months since we launched TruliaMap and we’ve been blown away with the adoption and the different ways that brokers have used it. Here’s an example; nice job Jim!
If you don’t already know, TruliaMap is an interactive, super cool map that any broker or agent with listings on Trulia can put on their own web page. With TruliaMap, you can…
- Showcase your listings on a single map – showing a picture, brief description and price when you mouse-over the map marker.
- Keep your customers on your site – all the map listings point to properties on your site.
- Set the map up in 2 minutes – customized to your color and layout.
Best of all – its free! (and if you’re nice, we may even help you with installation)
Check out some excellent examples of customized TruliaMap installations:
Comey & Shepherd Realtors (Cincinnati, OH)
BrokerMark.com (Roseville, CA)
The Counter Offer (Richmond, VA)
Bob Taylor (Los Angeles, CA)
ERA Mountain Properties (Blowing Rock, NC)
And if you want more than the standard design, you can go into the code and manipulate it to your heart’s content. Max Chirkov created six maps, re-sized them, and then combined them into one elegant layout (wow!).
Countless innovations are possible. Whether you use the off-the-shelf version, or customize TruliaMap – we hope that you use this interactive tool to capture the attention of your surfers.
Leave a comment if you are using TruliaMap or have ideas for other cool widgets that you think we should be making!
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September 19th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Way to go! Would be nice to have more customization options and flexibility. You already provide RSS/XML feed that will place list of listings on agent’s sites - would be really great to combine text output on the side with the map - just like Trulia does on its pages. Plus adding pagination wouldn’t hurt - this way it’s not limited just to 50 listings
September 20th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
Hey, there we are! Thank you for the mention.
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:22 pm
I have a Point 2 Agent site. P2A syndicates all members listings to Trulia, yet it appears that individual P2A sites aren’t indexed by Trulia.
I’d love to integrate TruliaMaps on my P2 site, but I can’t (unless I’m missing something). I could set up a feed of my listings, but it seems that if I do that, there will be duplicate listings in Trulia — one from my feed and one from Point 2.
I’ve “heard” Trulia and P2 are working together, I assume to address this problem.
Any advice? Should I build a feed of my listings, or wait for P2/Trulia to owrk through it?