Comments on: If CampusLive.com is a Massachusetts business success story, Mass. is really screwed

By: Allie

Allie — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:17:02 +0000

hey, just saw this post.

they are pretty big in providence college!!!

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:55:35 +0000

Karen Mason = extremely uniformed…

CampusLIVE seems to be the real deal, you said it yourself, for companies that use CampusLIVE, sales are great. What is your problem here? You say the site isn’t special, but it is increasing sales for all of its clients, and college students use it for food, tv guide, the weather, and a lot more. All of my friends use it everyday, and businesses love it. I don’t understand your argument…

By: Timothy Haroutunian

Timothy Haroutunian — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:46:09 +0000

@Karen I believe you can call it a success story…by that I mean the Bruins sweeping Montreal out of the playoffs. The Bruins dominated every game they played and proved that they are number #1 team for a reason.

P.S. CampusLive == New York Yankees….They both SUCK!!!

By: John

John — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:32:09 +0000

Looks like they just made the news out in Springfield. Maybe this will give you a better sense of what they’re all about.

http://www.abc40tv.com/global/story.asp?s=10231639

By: Karen Mason

Karen Mason — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:12:58 +0000

The only people that would know that they are self-employed is someone who works for them.

My hat goes off to whoever is doing their publicity. Anyone who owns a small business is self-employed. My hat goes off to everyone doing it on their own, but to say they are a success story…

A success story would be if the Bruins sweep tonight.

By: John

John — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:54:39 +0000

I personally think that they deserve a lot of credit. They’re all Self-employed and nationally recognized by Business Week. They’re doing something right.

You should all stop hassling them, my hat goes off to you CampusLIVE, keep up the good work.

By: Karen Mason

Karen Mason — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:32:29 +0000

About the stats: no matter how off website stats are, they aren’t that far off. Even if Alexa or Compete were off by by 500%, the website isn’t that big.

When stats are off, they are usually off a lot. But if this site is popular at all the colleges in Boston, it would get at least 120,000 per month. No way any site is off by 1000%.

Deval Patrick better get off his ass and support some real company like a computer tech or health tech co. You’re right, if college websites the best that Boston can do, then let’s start gathering around the soup kitchens!

By: Karen Mason

Karen Mason — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:19:56 +0000

I checked it out and its an ok site, but it isn’t anything special.

The scary thing is, if this site is popular, why is the manager of the website contacting a blog? If I owned a website that was getting accolades, I wouldn’t get mad at criticism.

I worked at a place that has camplive, and they give some traffic. But they have this huge contract ( like 600 a year plus some phone charge ), and my boss went nuts.

But business was good, so I guess its worth it. These college sites are all the same. They come and go, so no big deal.

By: Jared Stenquist

Jared Stenquist — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:49:59 +0000

Our competition isn’t facebook – we have very little to do with anything social, besides sharing content on facebook and commenting on restaurants and businesses.

As far as Alexa data – Alexa relies largely on their Toolbar installs and somewhat on ISP analytics that are sold.

Because over 80% of our users are on college campuses (who do not sell their private network analytics) their data as well as Competes tend to be hugely innacurate.

We measure our success through looking at server side stats and google analytics. Server side stats include robot traffic, and google tends to be conservative since the JS file doesn’t *always* load and it does filter out robot traffic.

Here’s some info from Matt Cutts of Google on the innacuracy of Alexa. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/thoughts-on-alexa-data/

By: Casey Bisson

Casey Bisson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:58:17 +0000

Hey, I just checked courseadvisor.com, one of the Google advertisers on this page and found they rank in the top 20K in Alexa and get about 1.5 million unique daily visitors in Compete. There’s a yardstick to measure against.