Trulia launched a new initiative today for our growing Trulia Voices real estate community with close to 400,000 real estate professionals – The Trulia Mayor program. The idea is to identify and highlight a local trust worthy community advocate for each state who has served as a local role model and who has led by example within the Trulia Voices community. The program is launching with 5 mayors from 5 states.
Each Trulia Mayor will receive special Trulia Mayor benefits as well as gaining some new community responsibilities. We believe the Trulia Mayors can help bring the community closer together while increasing the quality of the contributions within Voices. All in all, a win-win for everyone involved.
Some of the benefits or super powers as we like to call them include frequent roundtable meetings with Trulia team members, insider access to our roadmap, sneak peeks on projects and the have ability to provide feedback for key strategic initiatives. Additionally, each mayor will have a Mayor designation badge by the middle of next week, will be promoted through out the community and will be sources for Trulia PR and media opportunities and more.
As every great superhero can attest to, with great power comes great responsibility. That being said, we do look at our mayors as superheros because they have each done something remarkable on Voices – they have gained the trust of the community by providing quality real estate insight and knowledge to consumers and fellow real estate agents alike.
Moving forward, we would like the mayors to continue being active within the community by answering questions, blogging and helping others. We hope to see the mayors expand their sphere of influence outside of the Voices community as well, both online and offline via their social networks. To help this outreach effort, we will help each mayor co-host local Trulia sponsored networking parties, webinars and educational events in their area and more.
Without further adieu, the new Trulia Mayors are:
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Josh Boggs (San Antonio, TX) – Owner of Exposed Homes – Trulia Pro
Josh moved to San Antonio in 2000 and has flourished in his new found home. Having a strong background in financial management, consulting and multi-family property management, residential real estate consulting was inevitably waiting for him right around the corner. Believing wholeheartedly about reviving what is now considered a long lost art in today’s business world, Josh has brought his passion for helping people, valuable experience, sense of humor and enjoyment into his real estate career to hopefully remind his clients and potential clients that customer service is still alive and kicking in his domain. He now owns and controls the marketing company eXposed Homes located at Keller Williams and are barreling through their 3rd year of operation. -
Maureen Francis (Birmingham, MI) – Associate Broker at SKBK Sotheby’s International Realty –Trulia Pro – 2008 Trulia MVP
As a top producing Realtor in Birmingham, Michigan, she, and her husband, Dmitry Koublitsky, have been selling residential real estate in some of Metro Detroit's most affluent suburbs since 2001. The couple met in Ukraine, where Maureen worked as a consultant on projects for the US government, The World Bank and The United Nations, after serving in the first group of US Peace Corps volunteers in the former Soviet Union. Maureen and Dmitry have built much of their business through technology, by using the web to help them to unite buyers with sellers. Maureen was recently recognized by the Women's Council of Realtors for her use of technology, and she has received awards for blogging over the years. Maureen blogs at www.miOaklandCounty.com. -
Deborah Madey (Rumson, NJ) – Broker/Owner of Penninsula Realty – Trulia Pro – 2008 Trulia MVP
Deborah is a social media enthusiast with more than 2700 comments in Trulia Voices. See her Trulia profile here: http://www.trulia.com/profile/DeborahMadeyNewJersey/ -
Alan May (Evanston, NJ) – Realtor at Coldwell Banker – 2008 Trulia MVP
Alan brings a casual sense of humor to his postings (as you can tell from his ever-changing Elvis-inspired icons), here on Trulia and has has been a regular contributor to Trulia Voices since 2007 which lead to him becoming a Trulia MVP for 2008. Additionally, Alan has contributed to several other real estate related sites over the past few years. Alan has been a Realtor with one of the top Coldwell Banker offices in the Chicago area for almost 10 years, and has been consistently an award-winning agent, as well as one of the top producers in his area. He's a low-key agent, and views himself more as a consultant, than a salesman. -
Carl Medford (Fremont, CA) – Agent at Windermere – Trulia Pro
With the motto of, “Helping You Write The Next Chapter In Your Life,”™ Carl is one of the "next generation" of Web-based REALTORS. Carl typically transforms any local coffeehouse into an office; meeting with clients in any location and conducting business while enjoying the best coffee available! Instead of focusing on a specific neighborhood, Carl has earned the distinction of being a "Regional Expert," tracking trends and critical information in multiple markets, thus bringing the broadest possible expertise and service to his clients. -
In addition to being a REALTOR, Carl is a licensed general contractor and also owns "The Next Stage," a fully professional and accredited home staging company. Lastly, Carl has developed “The Ultimate Home Buying Experience,™”. He is featured weekly in “Real Estate Reality” in the Real Estate section of the San Leandro Times and Castro Valley Forum newspapers."
We're very excited by this program and look forward to seeing how the community embraces it. As always, all feedback and observations will be considered for future growth and expansion of the Trulia Mayor program. If you want to be one of the next Trulia Mayors, share your thoughts on why in a blog post on Trulia, standout within the community and be remarkable – we’ll notice.
In Related Mayor News:
Did you know the Gavin Newsom, the Mayor of San Francisco, is active on Trulia Voices? Check out his question to the community - When deciding where to live, what local information do you want at your fingertips?
Craig Newmark of Craigslist even re-tweeted Mayor Newsom's Trulia Voices Question - pretty cool.
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