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Boston runs on the academic calendar.
Move-in, finals and graduation reshape demand for nearly every neighborhood business.
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September is your January. Late August move-in weeks decide who a student uses for the next nine months, from gyms to salons to sandwich shops.
Get your offer in front of them before they arrive, not after. Parents make a lot of those first decisions and they respond to different messaging.
Then plan for the summer trough deliberately: shift to residents, run maintenance, and stop paying for ads against a population that left.
More on this market: Small business marketing in Boston
The short version
- Front-load August, not September.
- Market to parents in move-in season.
- Cut spend in the summer trough on purpose.
Sources and further reading
- Research division — student population and neighborhood profiles — Boston Planning & Development Agency
- Regional economic research — Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
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