{"id":5119,"date":"2008-10-20T08:46:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T15:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2008-10-20T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T15:47:00","slug":"no-layoffs-at-trulia-the-san-francisco-treat-is-still-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5119\/no-layoffs-at-trulia-the-san-francisco-treat-is-still-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"No layoffs at Trulia: The San Francisco treat is still hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17939_109-10070075-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNET:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Real-estate sites had some tough times last week. First, Redfin, an online brokerage for residential real estate, announced that it was laying off 20 percent of its staff, then Zillow, a service that delivers home values and lists sales, announced that it was forced to lay off 25 percent of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>But Trulia, which lets buyers find homes for sale across the United States, says it has no layoff plans and that it has enjoyed so much growth, it&#8217;s actually looking to expand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not making any layoffs. All companies need to be smart in this environment and adjust to the market movements,&#8221; Pete Flint, CEO and co-founder of Trulia, said in an interview. &#8220;As a company, we are in a strong position. We always believed that we had to be aggressive but fiscally responsible, and that is why we are in the position we are (in) today. In fact, we are still making a few select hires, where they are important to our revenue growth.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/disintermediation\" rel=\"tag\">disintermediation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/technology\" rel=\"tag\">technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNET: Real-estate sites had some tough times last week. First, Redfin, an online brokerage for residential real estate, announced that it was laying off 20 percent of its staff, then Zillow, a service that delivers home values and lists sales, announced that it was forced to lay off 25 percent of its workforce. But Trulia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3089,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3089\/number1expert-re-launches-as-number2expert\/","url_meta":{"origin":5119,"position":0},"title":"Number1Expert Re-Launches as Number2Expert","author":"Eric Bramlett","date":"May 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In a surprise move, website template provider Number1Expert has announced plans to rebrand as Number2Expert. This decision came following their inclusion of Trulia widgets on the myhomes.asp pages of all of their client sites. Here\u2019s an example. When asked about the decision, a spokesman said, \u201cTo date, our clients are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1474,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1474\/myspace-should-buy-trulia-zillow-and-active-rain\/","url_meta":{"origin":5119,"position":1},"title":"MySpace Should Buy Trulia, Zillow and Active Rain","author":"Brian Brady","date":"May 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"MySpace, Active Rain, Trulia, and Zillow. The perfect merger. Active Rain: The best place for B2B sales in the real estate industry. Mortgage originators, title reps, and escrow officers who aren't playing in the \"Rain\" are missing out on an incredible opportunity. I'm not going to expand on that anymore\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":162,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/162\/trulia-maptivating\/","url_meta":{"origin":5119,"position":2},"title":"Trulia maptivating . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 2, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeff at Trulia.com ate my feed and set up what I needed to make my own map. You can customize many details. Note that while Trulia gives you a color palette to work from, you can plug in your own hexadecimal values for web-safe colors. Very, very slick... 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