Comments on: Peter Flint Interview and The Significant Misconception

By: Independent Study Shows Trulia As #1 Threat To Franchisors « The Notorious R.O.B.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:25:35 +0000

[...] as much as I like the boys and girls and Trulia, I have been saying since the beginning of this blog that Trulia poses a threat to franchisors and large brokerages. [...]

By: -Rob

-Rob — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:10:57 +0000

@Heather – well, now that I’ve met Pete in person… yah, he doesn’t look much like R.S. But I only had a video to go by.

Great to meet you as well.

-rsh

By: Heather @ Trulia

Heather @ Trulia — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:58:33 +0000

Rob – good to meet you at Connect. I prob should comment on the content of your blog…but instead, I’m dying laughing at your comment about Pete Seacrest. I don’t actually agree…but thanks for the reference.

By: -Rob

-Rob — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:49:38 +0000

Bill -

That’s a great question — whether the graph has any correlation to Realogy’s feeding listings to Trulia.

And I’m not prepared to proclaim the Trulias of the world as enemies of real estate brands; I don’t think they intend such a thing for sure. But there is an interesting effect going on that I’m not sure people have really analyzed or picked up on just yet.

-rsh

By: Bill Lublin

Bill Lublin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:06:53 +0000

Rob;
Does the date of the change in positions correspond to Century 21’s placement of their listings on Trulia? I still think the consumer is looking for property, and that the danger to our industry here might be the intermediation of aggregators like Trulia rather then a disintermediation (after all Trulia has neither the customer ,the product,nor the service- so what are they doing here except what we should be doing ourselves – reaching out ot the consumer) – Just a thought – great post though

By: -Rob

-Rob — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:49:54 +0000

Good point, Chris. Although, it does make me wonder if the typical market cycles are to blame, why Trulia doesn’t suffer from them?

I’d love to see longer graphs as well — sadly, the tool I used doesn’t have longer. Maybe someone from C21 wants to post a longer timescale?

-rsh

By: Chris McKeever

Chris McKeever — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:06:36 +0000

Rob – was pondering your graph. You really need to see what happened to C21 traffic in December 2006. If their traffic plummitted from the typical winter market conditions – Trulia isn’t as big of a factor as the shorter graph is making it out to be.

Good work though — I’d be interested in seeing the longer graphs.

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