{"id":6931,"date":"2009-02-17T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2009-02-16T23:58:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T06:58:04","slug":"marketing-advice-from-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6931\/marketing-advice-from-the-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing Advice from the Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego lost a local icon last Friday.\u00a0 George &#8220;King&#8221; Stahlman was a bail bondsman known throughout the county and I suspect, thanks to this once being simply a &#8220;Navy town,&#8221; parts well beyond the county.\u00a0 His passing, while important to many, is not really the stuff of a national real estate blog.\u00a0 But he was a master marketer.\u00a0 I doubt you could\u00a0 find a dozen people living in San Diego who can&#8217;t sing his latest commercial jingle:\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s better to know me and not need me, than to need me and not know me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even in death, King Stahlman still has something to teach.\u00a0 This, his motto, as reported in <a title=\"&quot;King&quot; Stahlman\" href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/feb\/13\/bn13king185738\/\" target=\"_blank\">an article in the local paper announcing his death<\/a>:\u00a0 &#8220;Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and <em>advertise<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vaya con Dios &#8220;King&#8221; Stahlman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego lost a local icon last Friday.\u00a0 George &#8220;King&#8221; Stahlman was a bail bondsman known throughout the county and I suspect, thanks to this once being simply a &#8220;Navy town,&#8221; parts well beyond the county.\u00a0 His passing, while important to many, is not really the stuff of a national real estate blog.\u00a0 But he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1007,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1007\/glenn-kelman-on-redfincoms-move-into-southern-california-ive-never-had-to-think-so-hard-in-an-interview-in-my-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":6931,"position":0},"title":"Glenn Kelman on Redfin.com&#8217;s move into Southern California: &#8220;I&#8217;ve never had to think so hard in an interview in my life&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the newspaper news, and we'll come back to it in due course: Redfin.com today opens three new offices in Southern California: Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego. 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