John Sung Kim

You know how I know your healthcare system sucks?

John — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:15:13 +0000

Because things are so bad that people buy gift cards for $29.99 for a flu-shot in the Walgreens pharmacy below our office in downtown San Francisco – flu shot costs subsidized by no one.. And how much does it cost the city when someone goes to our local free clinic because they have flu sysmptoms??

Give the gift of healthcare this season!

Get your black belt in laziness – at Cordarounds

John — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:52:44 +0000

Another reason why Cordarounds (a local men’s clothing vendor) continues to kill it with their Facebook ads. Simple, funny, targeted (women don’t get shown these ads).

Black belt pajamas. Now we can all kick @ss on the sofa!

BP hires a PR firm called “Purple Strategies”

John — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:29:13 +0000

Hopefully Purple Strategies PR doesn’t allow any more “We care about the small people” fiascos. Interestingly for a PR firm, they have given zero thought to their search engine optimization,

their meta description still has the joomla default tag and their homepage is all Flash… which begs the question -

Are government and big oil contracts so “insiders only” of an environment that they are completely immune to any desired web marketing? It’s almost like they don’t want to be found…hmmm.

One of their principal partners, Alex Castellanos, has done a lot of work for Bush/Cheney and has been called “the new media mastermind of the Republican party.” I’m not saying Bush or Republicans are good or bad, just pointing out how odd it is for a frequent guest on CNN and long-time political insider to have a website that doesn’t seem to want to be found…

A frequent guest on CNN

Pssst! Tell them you care about your customers – you know, the small people!

Obama says, “Wow – Asian kids are good at math!”

John — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:34:08 +0000

OK, President Obama didn’t say that (in exact words verbatim) but in what is to be yet another surefire advancement towards the stereotype of Asian guys loving math, this year’s “Mathletes” from the 2010 national math competition (MathCounts) were uhm… you guessed it (even if you were too politically correct to say it out loud) a bunch of Asians. Have mixed feelings about this one…

this pic is from the White House website:

1 Asian guy, 2 Asian guys, 3....

Taco Trucks – consistently effective commercial tweets

John — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:40:47 +0000

Taco trucks skirting the law (and local zoning codes) offering delicious Mexican and Mexican/Korean fusion (yes!) foods consistently show effective use of tweets for direct sales. Not many other verticals can say that about twitter usage.

Your truck has how many followers?

What do you guys do again? Something w/ Doctors, right?

John — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:11:01 +0000

Quick 2 minute tour explains what the 17 of us here in San Fran have been up to for the past 10 months…

DoctorBase – Dentist & Doctor Reviews from DoctorBase on Vimeo.

More proof small online pubs still matter

John — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:24:02 +0000

Gawker breaks iPad security leak news.. gains massive traffic, mainstream cred, and SEO links.

Goatse strikes (again)

the-Rich-Jerk Rips People Off… what a jerk!

John — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:51:04 +0000

The new Tom VU of the Internet is “the Rich Jerk.” His best quote is “I’m a jerk, but I don’t care because I’m rich.” I wonder what the bigger conversion trick is – the blonde hanging on his arm or the idea that he says anyone can “make several millions dollars every year on the internet, doing almost nothing.”

That’s right, keep eating those chips while watching day-time TV – your lotto ticket is just one click away!

ripping off hopelessly dumb people all over the country...

DoctorBase now in Google Local’s reviews

John — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:01:09 +0000

I may have missed someone, but this makes us the only non-VC funded company (read: Organic) that has been selected to have their healthcare provider reviews be indexed as part of Google’s local reviews. It’s a huge honor and I’m biased of course – but our reviews are verified, accurate, and come backed by an ethical reviews policy – no doorway pages, no “astro-turfed” reviews, no b.s. And we’re glad both the public and Goog appreciate it. We promise to keep the good karma going strong.

A lot of hard work by our engineers, marketing folk, and doctors!

Montel Williams Pimps Payday Loans

John — Fri, 28 May 2010 23:39:11 +0000

Oh, Montel Williams… didn’t you win an Emmy once? If you look at the interest rate on payday loans – it’s pretty much like loan sharking. Except I don’t think Montel would scare anyone if he showed up to your door..

does anyone remember me from daytime tv?