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	Music City Bricks didn't get started by just one person. many people have helped get it going and keep it going over the years. You see, Music City Bricks is designed to be a gem for our community a place that parents, kids, adult fans of LEGO (AFOLs) and other community members are just glad knowing it exits in their community.
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	In addition to all of our <em><span>FRIENDS</span> </em>that helped us get started and run our daily operations, we have a whole community of <em><a href="https://www.musiccitybricks.com/membership/" rel="">FRIENDS</a></em> that pay a monthly membership subscription because they want to ensure we can always pay the rent, insurance and keep the lights on each month. Even if they don't make it in to buy something that month, they are happier knowing we still exist and will be there for them next month.
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	We have a subscription system as a way to collect these generous monthly subscriptions.
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	Founding Member - Friends of Music City Bricks
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		These are some big heroes of ours. They have put serious skin in the game. They took our dream and made it their dream. Then, they pulled along beside us and helped us make our shared dream a reality.
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		Our Founding Members earned their spots in this elite support group and made it on this list as a result of their amazing actions and attitude. 
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		They help us recruit our new subscribers.
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		Our Founding Members have contributed unfathomable numbers of hours of their own time sorting clearance LEGO sets out to the individual parts and colors to ensure we would have a vast inventory on opening day.
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		They have spent their own money to ensure we were able to take advantage of bargains even when we didn't have the funds available at the time.
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		They have driven untold miles chasing down bargains on LEGO sets, Craigslist finds, Facebook Marketplace listings, and even going-out-of-business sales for furniture and store fixtures.
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		They believed in our dream the moment we shared the idea with them and they fanned the flames of our own excitement with their fresh enthusiasm. 
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		Before we could even ask for their help, they were offering ideas, resources, and their own time and money.
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		Our Founding Members helped plan and host events, activities and workshops.
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		They helped generate and develop product and services ideas.
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		Our Founding Members are the heartbeat of what is so special about Music City Bricks.
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	Member - Friends of Music City Bricks 
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		Our Members may have discovered us a little later in the game, but they jumped right in and joined our efforts by signing up for monthly subscriptions because they want us to exist in their community next month and the month after.
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		These regular subscriptions help ensure we can pay rent each month and focus more of our efforts on making Music City Bricks a fun place to visit and less of our efforts just selling stuff to make rent. It is more important to us that you have fun on every visit than that you buy stuff on every visit.
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	Superhero Club - Friends of Music City Bricks
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		This is the option for folks that just want to help out the bottom line by chipping in fifteen bucks every month. Call it buying us some coffee or helping pay for part of the electric bill if you want. Whatever you call it, we call it awesome! Your support is a vote that tells us our community wants a place like this to exist.
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		This option is also great for friends, relatives, and enthusiastic LEGO fans that might live too far away to directly benefit from the physical building but are so pumped by what we are doing that they want to be a part of it and put some skin in the game to help us exist.
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		Your support is critical to our ongoing success! You are helping a hobby store exist and provide an amazing resource to the community.
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Are you ready to be a Friend of Music City Bricks? Get your membership subscription today:</strong></span>
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	<span style="font-size:26px;"><a href="https://www.musiccitybricks.com/membership/" rel="" style="background-color:transparent;color:#1a202c;">https://www.musiccitybricks.com/membership/</a></span>
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	We have always said hobby stores are doomed in this age of mega corporations offering bottom dollar prices and next day shipping. The exception is when a hobby store can connect with its community in a way that they want it to exist more than they want to get an item $5-$10 cheaper online or at a retail giant. You must ask yourself how the giants are able to offer it so much cheaper than your local hobby store. One way is that they have more buying power, well you give that to them when you buy from them. Buy from your local hobby store first and their buying power will grow. Music City Bricks has lowered its price formulas significantly at least three times since opening due to the community increasing our buying power. We even lowered our price formulas again when nearly all other stores doubled their prices around 2021. Your support has allowed us to do that. Our next big push to lower our prices is going to be focused on the people that support us the most - our members. 
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	One of the many ways our community partners with us to keep our doors open and our focus on making Music City Bricks a fun place for LEGO fans to hang out is by paying for membership subscriptions.
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	Our membership subscriptions have three primary purposes:
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		Bring you in every month for a regular dose of LEGO fun.
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		Keep us in business with regular predictable income - so we can exist for you to come in every month for a regular dose of fun.
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		Encourage you to shop with us first to make your membership a good deal for you as well as for us.
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	Your subscription is critical to our ongoing success! By subscribing, you are voting for this type of hobby store to be in your community and are helping ensure its success! Do you want your community to look like every interstate exit ramp in America, or do you want it to have cool shops with great product variety? You make it happen either way when you vote with your dollars.
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Are you ready to make it happen? Get your membership subscription today:</strong></span>
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	<span style="font-size:26px;"><a href="https://www.musiccitybricks.com/membership/" rel="">https://www.musiccitybricks.com/membership/</a></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">Your membership subscription helps us fund making the place even cooler way faster than we would be able to with just natural business growth.</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">We are designing a new Music City Bricks experience as we prepare to move from our 3,000 sqft facility to the new 12,000 sqft facility.</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">This new facility size allows us to offer many cool products and services that might not be profitable on their own. Your membership ensures we can reliably pay the rent and utilities as long as we have 1,000 active memberships. This then allows us to carry a variety of products that do not sell fast enough to be profitable but are a lot of fun to get all in one place.</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">The hobby store for LEGO fans will be bigger.</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">The Parts Department will be bigger.</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">The play zones will be expanded into a whole pay-to-play experience called The Play Museum.</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">We will be building out museum exhibits around the outer wall of The Play Museum.</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">We will be expanding the LEGO city in The Play Museum. </span>
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	<span style="font-size:26px;">Want to partner with us to make this community project succeed? </span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Increased expenses</strong></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">This expansion will be a huge jump in expenses for us. The space will be 4X bigger, but the rent will be 5X higher. This is still half what the rent would be if we were in a grocery store plaza. The utilities will be more as well as other standard overhead like more furnishings and the costs of growing our team.</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Share the burden</strong></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">You can dramatically reduce our stress and anxiety and allow us to focus on making the place awesome. You can do this by ensuring the rent and utilities are paid each month with a monthly subscription membership. Please consider partnering with us with your membership and by "selling" them to your friends and family on our behalf. That also helps us make the place more awesome faster by requiring less spending on marketing.</span>
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	<strong><span style="font-size:16px;">Buy from Music City Bricks first</span></strong>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">If you want your community to look like every interstate exit ramp in America, spend your money at fast food restaurants and mega-retailers.</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">If you like having a community hobby store commit to buy all your LEGO from Music City Bricks first and don't even check other options unless we do not have it.</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Make it happen</strong></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">Will you partner with us by purchasing a membership subscription?</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;">Some of you participated in our earlier membership program when we first opened the store. Anyone that ever had one of our previous memberships over the last five years will be sent a coupon code to sign up for the new membership program at half-price.</span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Are you ready to be a Friend of Music City Bricks? Get your membership subscription today:</strong></span>
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	<span style="font-size:26px;"><a href="https://www.musiccitybricks.com/membership/" rel="" style="background-color:transparent;color:#1a202c;">https://www.musiccitybricks.com/membership/</a></span>
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