Activerain has teamed up with Trulia, OK great, now what?

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Commercial Real Estate Agent with 602 CRE BR649708000

I've been slowly watching, listening and reading the blogs about the merger between ActiveRain and Trulia.  I guess the ebb and flow of the business world is inevitable, and one can either choose to accept it or not.  I choose to accept it, it's a facet of life, particularly in the business life cycle of a company such as ActiveRain.  Trulia has seen the benefit of Activerain and decided boldly to act on it by moving to merge with it.  Now what will it do with it?Activerain Trulia

Some people dislike the move, most are positive and some are neither here nor there.  I particularly liked Melissa Zavala's blog titled, Trulia and Activerain: Is There an Elephant in the Room?  In it, she is pretty stoic about her views on the merger, in the end it shouldn't change who you are as an agent and what you do to ensure your success via blogging.  I can tell you that I'll be changing over to my own wordpress blog at Semper Find My Home and cutting back on my participation on ActiveRain, while I choose to accept the merger, my participation is another story, I will let time dictate if the merger is a good or bad thing.  I just think it'll become bogged down with Trulia's history of short comings, like Scott Godzyk pointed out in his blog here.  I'll be back from time to time, but no longer on a daily basis.  Prove to me, and us Activerainers, Trulia that you won't lose us to spam, and the experience most realtors have had with you in the past.  The balls in your court.

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Comments (9)

ReadySetLoan Condo Approval Team
ReadySetLoan Condo Team LLC - South Windsor, CT
The FHA/VA Condo Project Approval Specialists

I sure will miss reading your articles on here, Alex.  I'll get set up to read your wordpress articles.

Apr 10, 2014 12:23 AM
Alex Popovic
602 CRE - Phoenix, AZ
Alex Popovic Developer, Real Estate Broker

Eric,

Thanks for reading and commenting, cmon over to our WP blog at Semper Find My home, I'll be back from time to time, but like I said, Trulia needs to earn me back

Apr 10, 2014 12:27 AM
ReadySetLoan Condo Approval Team
ReadySetLoan Condo Team LLC - South Windsor, CT
The FHA/VA Condo Project Approval Specialists

Alex, I just looked for your site.  The link to your site in your profile takes me to Facebook.  Is this where I should go?

Apr 10, 2014 12:29 AM
Alex Popovic
602 CRE - Phoenix, AZ
Alex Popovic Developer, Real Estate Broker

It should send you to a temp landing page with social media avatars and our logo, are you not seeing it?

Apr 10, 2014 12:31 AM
Melissa Zavala
Broadpoint Properties - Escondido, CA
Broker, Escondido Real Estate, San Diego County

Alex: Developing a strong WP blog is crucial to your business, so it is great that you will be continuing to work on that. At the end of the day, even for AR oldtimers who live and die in the rain, if your entire Internet presence is in one basket and the basket gets lost (or sold or stolen or disappears), that wouldn't bode well for you as a business person. To that end, with new reports stating that there is an 86% probability that the real estate professional's job will be taken over by computers in the coming years, it's increasingly important to increase your brand presence online--not only on AR but throughout the Internet. Kudos to you!

Apr 10, 2014 12:45 AM
Alex Popovic
602 CRE - Phoenix, AZ
Alex Popovic Developer, Real Estate Broker

Melissa,

Thanks for visiting and commenting, interesting stat about 86% of realtors jobs will be taken over by computers.  See you over in the WordPress world.

Apr 10, 2014 02:22 AM
Doug Rogers
Bayou Properties - Alexandria, LA
Your Alexandria Louisiana Agent

The danger to Trulia is stirring the pot. Yes, we have "hundreds of thousands" of bloggers, but a handful of us do the bulk of the posting.

Driving off a few of us will result in a decline in fresh content each month.

Apr 10, 2014 11:11 PM
Alex Popovic
602 CRE - Phoenix, AZ
Alex Popovic Developer, Real Estate Broker

Doug,

You're exactly right, thanks for stopping by a commenting.

Apr 11, 2014 03:53 AM
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Interesting, I am new here and am not as well versed in the History of Trulia and AR, but I am learning fast.

It seems that most people are adapting a wait and see attitude.

Should be interesting !

Apr 18, 2014 12:23 AM

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