Launched in 1999, ZipRealty Inc. was founded on the belief that selling or buying a home could be faster, easier and more efficient. Utilizing the power of the Internet, ZipRealty has streamlined the real estate process and has passed along significant savings for consumers. We caught up with Richard Sommer (Former CEO of ZipRealty) [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "ZipRealty = Consumer Savings", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/07/20/ziprealty-consumer-savings/" });
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Believing that the market was ripe for a boutique agency, Donald D. Pearson, Chairman of Kurfiss Real Estate, realized his vision when purchasing the single office agency in 1991. Today, with five offices, 80 agents, and over $1 Billion in sales, Kurfiss continues to be a market leader in the pursuit of personal service [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Invaluable Insight from Donald D. Pearson, Kurfiss Sotheby’s International Realty", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/07/11/invaluable-insight-from-donald-d-pearson-kurfiss-sothebys-international-realty/" });
Continue reading...Thursday, March 29, 2007
In Part 1 of our exclusive interview with Barbara Corcoran, we talked about technology. In Part 2 we focused on people. Well, we saved the best for last. In the 3rd and final installment of our interview Barbara tells us how she broke through the noise and rose to the top before cashing in to the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Must see Trulia TV: Real Estate Baroness Barbara Corcoran (Part 3 - the finale)", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/03/29/must-see-trulia-tv-real-estate-baroness-barbara-corcoran-part-3-the-finale/" });
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 20, 2007
In Part 1 of our exclusive interview with Barbara, we talked about technology. Part 2 focuses on people. Specifically, Barbara gives us tips on…. 1. How to make people love you. 2. How to spot people that have the potential to sell $300 million a year in real estate like Corcoran top producer Carrie Chiang. 3. Who makes [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Must see Trulia TV: Real Estate Baroness Barbara Corcoran (part 2 of 3)", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/03/20/must-see-trulia-tv-real-estate-baroness-barbara-corcoran-part-2-of-3/" });
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Welcome to part one of Trulia’s exclusive interview with Barbara Corcoran, the founder of New York City’s premier real estate company, The Corcoran Group. Barbara shares her secrets to success of how she turned a $1,000 loan into an $8 billion dollar revenue company before selling The Corcoran Group for $66 million in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Must see Trulia TV: Real Estate Baroness Barbara Corcoran (part 1)", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/03/14/must-see-trulia-tv-trulia-interviews-real-estate-baroness-barbara-corcoran-part-1/" });
Continue reading...Sunday, March 11, 2007
Live from Las Vegas, Trulia interviews Steve Barnes, President & COO of Coldwell Banker United, the largest Coldwell Banker Affiliate in the world in closed transactions. Steve talks to Trulia about everything from his early adoption of everything Internet, how CB United managed to reduce its print budget by 25% every year for the past [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Live at the Coldwell Banker International Conference (Vegas baby, Vegas)", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/03/11/live-at-the-coldwell-banker-international-conference-in-vegas-baby-vegas/" });
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Editor’s Note: we were asked to pull this video by the powers that be, so it is no longer available. Sorry! In part one of our video coverage of Seth Godin’s keynote at Inman Real Estate Connect NYC 2007 Seth told us why traditional marketing doesn’t work anymore. In Part 2 Seth tells us [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Godin Live @ Inman Connect. Part 2: What’s a Purple Cow?", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/02/27/seth-godin-live-inman-connect-part-2-whats-a-purple-cow/" });
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Editor’s Note: we were asked to pull this video by the powers that be, so it is no longer available. Sorry! I got a few snippets (golden nuggets) of Seth Godin’s keynote at Inman Real Estate Connect NYC 2007. Seth goes back a few (20, 30, 40?) years to find a time when traditional [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Marketing Guru Seth Godin Live from New York @ Inman Real Estate Connect 2007", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/02/13/marketing-guru-seth-godin-live-from-new-york-inman-real-estate-connect-2007/" });
Continue reading...Sunday, February 4, 2007
We sat down with Niki Scevak, CEO & Founder of HomeThinking.com at Inman Real Estate Connect. HomeThinking is in the very controversial business of rating and reviewing real estate agents, but how they do it is pure genius. HomeThinking doesn’t count on consumers to review agents on the site. Instead, it trolls county records to monitor [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Rating & Reviewing Agents. An Interview with Niki Scevak, CEO HomeThinking.com", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/02/04/rating-reviewing-agents-an-interview-with-niki-scevek-ceo-homethinkingcom/" });
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 23, 2007
We caught up with Simon Baker, CEO of RealEstate.com.au, at Inman Real Estate Connect in New York. Simon discusses: - What its like to be 58% owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp, which also owns Fox News and MySpace.com. - What its like to fly in Rupert Murdoch’s jet. - 2% commissions in Australia & the UK - Newspaper classifieds [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Interview with Simon Baker, CEO RealEstate.com.au", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/01/23/interview-with-simon-baker-ceo-realestatecomau/" });
Continue reading...Saturday, January 13, 2007
Craig Newmark talks to us live at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference in NYC about what’s up with Craigslist these days. Craig discusses why they started charging for rental ads in New York, how he fights spam listings and what his day-to-day is like as “Chief Customer Service Rep”. Sorry for the interview’s sudden [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Interview with Craig Newmark, Founder Craigslist", url: "http://www.truliablog.com/2007/01/13/interview-with-craig-newmark-founder-craigslist/" });
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