I will need my initial post and two classmate responses done. I am doing rental properties out of my home.Imagine that a small business has three choices for location: leasing a spot in a mall, leasing a location in a central business district, and purchasing a stand-alone structure. The stand-alone site has ample parking and a traffic count of approximately 80,000 cars per day passing by at 35 mph. Foot traffic in the mall is the highest, but so is the lease payment, as well as the restrictions such as business hours. Foot traffic downtown is much less, but so is the rent. Which would you choose? List three reasons why.Resources:Chapter 4 and 5: The Harvard Business Review Entrepreneur’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Launch and Grow Your New Business https://ezproxy.snhu.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e076mww&AN=2223391&site=ehost-live&scope=siteTo complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric document.1st classmate response needed 6-1 Discussion: Choosing the Best LocationDoug Yost posted Jun 9, 2021 7:25 PM This is a great scenario. In my job, I have to evaluate and select real estate locations all the time so this really hits home with me because these are very real choices in the market. One of the questions that I ask our real estate team is how many cars per day (CPD) are there on the road in front of our potential site. I also ask the CPD on both roads when our potential site is on a corner. Needless to say, I would choose the stand-alone site with the 80,000CPD. (1) If you have good branding and visibility, traffic will solve your marketing initiatives. It is worth paying more for rent when you have this level of traffic in front of your business because it is like you are marketing the store every single day. Banners, Flags, Balloons, and great signage can market your business to 80,000 CPD. When you consider the cost to market to this many people on a daily basis, it would be a staggering amount over and above your facility costs, whether leasing or purchasing. (2) Being located on a road that has 80,000 CPD is a dream for a business, especially at 35 mph instead of highway speeds. Usually, to get this many CPD, it is a highway that runs in front of the store so this is a very special situation. In this case, the traffic will help you drive additional sales in your business because you have a built-in traffic supply. If this were downtown or in a mall, generating traffic would be an expensive challenge. So, being in front of 80,000 CPD helps generate the traffic needed to drives revenue in your business. This truly turns your business into a “numbers game”, which gives the business owner great flexibility in deploying multiple strategies to drive additional revenue, gross margin, or both. (3) With the location and CPD, the business can run promotions, host special events, drive initiatives via social media, hold collaborative events with other business partners, and even introduce new technology / products because of the size of the location and parking. With this visibility, the location can also serve as a fantastic location for charity events. Many times, radio stations or live streaming events will promote efforts to support a charity and this location would serve this need very well. This would allow the location to build some good will with the community aside from its core business and be seen as a good corporate citizen. Having businesses in each of the options listed to choose from, the stand-alone site with the great traffic and large parking lot is an outstanding location and capable of long-term sustainability. 2nd response neededofficeSasha Cash posted Jun 9, 2021 4:33 PM So this is something that really depends on which business someone is working with. Mine is an animal sanctuary/rescue. This means that my main location would either be none of these, or would be the stand-alone structure. There is an option that I think would be better, though: having the sanctuary and rehab spot in a secluded area, such as on my property as originally planned, and then having the store-front adoption/donation center be in one of the locations.Now, looking at these three options as more of an office location is considerably different. I think this is the only realistic way for my business to operate, as rehabilitating any animals would mean controlling their environment a lot in the beginning. Not to mention, the space would be an issue, especially with barnyard animals or wildlife. So, deciding on the office location would be done with a weighted decision matrix.Note: this prompt doesn’t say whether the downtown or stand-alone location has the lowest rent, so I will rank them the same.When I was doing this decision matrix, as I do with all of them, I don’t think of which one I want to win while I’m deciding on weights and ratings. That would, after all, defeat the purpose of the decision matrix. After I finished doing this, I was surprised to find out how low downtown scored. I thought that it was going to be better than the mall spot. There is a chance that I forgot an important category, since I did this rather quickly, but I don’t think that’s what happened here. This example is a huge reason that I like decision matrices.As for at least three reasons to choose the stand-alone location, I think these are good: ample parking leads to easier access for everyone; rent is fair; the traffic driving by could be huge when it comes to bringing new people in; there would likely be less crowding and some space for doing meet-and-greets for possible adoptions; and business hours can be whatever works for my business.pic0.png(44.97 KB)

“Dylan’s Three Marriages”Dylan is on his third marriage and it appears to be on the rocks. His wife, Cassandra, just found out that he is having an affair with another woman. She suspected this for some time, but her suspicious were proven when she saw a text message on his phone confirming a lunch date later that week. Usually Dylan kept his phone on him and she wouldn’t have the chance to see a message, but today was different. After she had put in a long day at her marketing job and finished a major project, her boss gave her the afternoon off. This rarely happened and she was looking forward to dinner with Dylan and a romantic evening together. Instead, it turned into a terrible argument ending with Cassandra throwing Dylan out of the house.This is not the first time a marriage ended for Dylan because he was having an affair. Both of his previous marriages ended for the same reason. During his first marriage, Dylan had multiple affairs. His ex-wife, Whitney, knew about them but accepted the affairs because she thought that a man like Dylan needed more than one woman to satisfy him. He had always been sexually promiscuous, in high school and college, so she reasoned that as long as he loved her, it did not matter that there were other sexual partners. Dylan and Whitney had two children together, but over time Dylan’s time away from her and their family became too extensive and obvious. After while she got tired of being the only one to care for their boys. She felt used and no longer loved. She felt that Dylan was no longer interested in her and just kept her around to care for the house and children. So she filed for divorce.Dylan married again and had another child with his second wife, Nicole, who had no idea of Dylan’s sexual past. He explained this first divorce was due to irreconcilable differences, but then a friend told Nicole about Dylan having an affair and she filed for divorce.Besides this recurrent pattern of affairs and marriages, Dylan has another noticeably repetitive pattern of behavior in that all his wives share an uncanny resemblance to each other. They are all very attractive, medium height, with a slender, athletic build, shiny long blond hair, and complexions that are just slightly tanned.Dylan is attractive also, with an athletic build. Most likely some of these similarities stem from the fact that Dylan usually meets his prospective wives at the fitness club he belongs to. A typical first date usually involves a tennis match and dinner afterward. Other dates often include going out dancing at a club. It is well known among the members of the fitness club that he is quite wealthy from his position as a vice president of a software manufacturing company.Interesting, although Dylan is quite sexually promiscuous, he rarely uses contraception or STI protection. Even when his dates ask him to use condoms he refuses because of his decreased sensation. He never asks his dates whether they are on any type of birth control either. He believes that if his dates, or his wives, are concerned about getting pregnant or contracting a sexually transmitted infection, the responsibility for prevention is theirs. Even though Dylan has three children with his previous wives and is unconcerned about contraception, he is an uninvolved father who rarely spends time with his children.Using Chapter 12 as your guideline, address the following issues or questions as they relate to Mischel’s traits in cognitive social learning theory:How could cognitive social learning theory explain Dylan’s promiscuity?How is delay of gratification demonstrated in Dylan’s life?How does the CAPS model apply to Dylan’s relationships?RubricCase Study RubricCase Study RubricCriteriaRatingsPtsThis criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome1. Provided a brief summary of the case study using APA format.4.0 ptsExcellent3.0 ptsProficient2.0 ptsProgressing1.0 ptsDeveloping0.0 ptsUnacceptable4.0 ptsThis criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome2. Answered questions at bottom of case study and included at least 3 citations using APA format.4.0 ptsExcellent3.0 ptsProficient2.0 ptsProgressing1.0 ptsDeveloping0.0 ptsUnacceptable4.0 ptsThis criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome3. Gave your personal reaction in the last section of your paper.4.0 ptsExcellent3.0 ptsProficient2.0 ptsProgressing1.0 ptsDeveloping0.0 ptsUnacceptable4.0 ptsThis criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome4. 2 full pages to 3 full pages long and written using APA format.4.0 ptsExcellent3.0 ptsProficient2.0 ptsProgressing1.0 ptsDeveloping0.0 ptsUnacceptable4.0 ptsThis criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome5. Free of spelling and grammar errors.4.0 ptsExcellent3.0 ptsProficient2.0 ptsProgressing1.0 ptsDeveloping0.0 ptsIncorrect4.0 ptsTotal Points: 20.0PreviousNext