RISMEDIA, Sept. 12, 2007-United Country Real Estate, a national real estate franchise system specializing in real estate throughout the small cities and towns of rural America, has announced that the company has entered into a strategic marketing and listing strategy agreement with Trulia.com, one of America’s leading real estate vertical search engines. Additionally, United Country is partnering with GoogleT to provide its listing content via Google Base to google.com, the world’s largest comprehensive search engine. Through these partnerships, United Country’s inventory of nearly 25,000 listings will be automatically uploaded to google.com, via Google Base, and trulia.com, maximizing the online visibility of United Country listings nationwide.”Partnering with Trulia and Google to expose our clients’ properties to the largest possible buyer base is part of a larger strategic initiative to empower our local United Country Real Estate offices with the most comprehensive and advanced set of technology and marketing solutions available in the market today,” said Dan Duffy, chief executive officer of United Country Real Estate. “We are thrilled to offer this additional value added service to our 660 plus national affiliate franchisee partners.”
This agreement will allow United Country Real Estate professionals to provide sellers with even greater marketing exposure for their listings.
United Country.com, and the individual Web sites of each United Country franchise office, will find increased Web traffic as a result of this new venture in comprehensive listing distribution. Buyers will now have the ability to search for property on trulia.com or google.com and find direct links to United Country brokerage Web sites for additional listing details, agent contacts and area information.
“With all of the aggregators and listing Web sites that are attempting to serve the market, it is important that United Country chooses partners carefully in sharing its listing data. Google and Trulia were chosen for compelling reasons that allow us to maximize our listing footprint without sacrificing the integrity of our system or our franchise affiliate partner data,” said David Dickey, chief technology officer, United Country Real Estate.
The addition of United Country’s listing inventory to Trulia will provide reciprocal benefits to trulia.com and its visitors.
“United Country represents a unique footprint of listings catering to the idyllic lifestyle seeker, baby boomers looking for second home, retirement, recreational or other properties in the country. This really rounds out our content and further enables Trulia to provide rich listing content to its growing user base,” said Sami Inkenin, chief operating officer/founder, Trulia.
For more than 80 years, United Country has remained committed to uniting buyers and sellers of country and small town real estate. With the introduction of partnerships with Trulia.com and GoogleT, the company has heightened its position to better serve this objective.
For more information, visit www.unitedcountry.com
