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7. This amount includes gas, electric, water, cable, Internet and telephone.<br />

S. This amount assumes you signed up each of your members in the current year. In reality,<br />

your cost for proximity cards will be less after the first year, because you will not have to issue new<br />

proximity cards to each member each year.<br />

9. This amount is based on our current requirement that you contribute $150 per month to<br />

our national advertising fund.<br />

10. We expect you to spend at least $6,000 per year for advertising. However, we<br />

recommend you spend more, and our projection assumes you spend at least $S,OOO, and that your<br />

spending increases as you have more members. This amount includes any amount we may require you to<br />

contribute to a local marketing fund.<br />

11. Miscellaneous includes janitorial services, legal and accounting fees, cell phone, supplies,<br />

licenses, bank charges, and other similar items. Many of these costs can vary significantly depending on<br />

the location of your center and the time you spend looking for the best possible cost on these items. The<br />

projections are consistent with the experience of our company owned centers.<br />

Additional Assumptions:<br />

A. The projections assume you act as manager of your center and do not receive a separate<br />

salary. They assume you do not hire any other employees to help you. Because our centers are designed<br />

to operate 24 hours a day, without the necessity of having staff on premises, you should not need any<br />

other employees. However, some states will require you have an employee on premises whenever your<br />

center is open. If you are an absentee-owner, or you operate in a location that requires the center to be<br />

staffed at all times, your expenses will increase significantly because you will have to pay salaries and<br />

benefits to employees. In our company-owned centers, we do have to pay a manager, or a management<br />

fee, to somebody to oversee the centers for us. Thus, we would have had additional expenses for wages<br />

or management fees.<br />

B. We did not provide any allowance for corporate or personal income taxes.<br />

C. While we did include expenses for a lease/purchase of your equipment, we did not<br />

include any other expenses for depreciation, amortization, interest, or the repayment of debt. We<br />

anticipate every franchisee will fund its initial investment differently, and we therefore cannot project<br />

how you would account for these items.<br />

D. The projections are based on economic conditions that existed in February 2009, with no<br />

consideration in any category for inflation related adjustments or further weaknesses in general economic<br />

conditions.<br />

E. The projections assume you follow our guidelines in terms of the products and services<br />

you offer and the way you operate your business. If you do not, your results will likely vary dramatically<br />

from the results we have projected.<br />

Of the 10 centers we used in compiling these projections, 9 of them were open during all of200S.<br />

9 of the 10 centers had over 400 members, 70fthe 10 had over 600 members, and 4 of the 10 had over<br />

SOO members, as of the end of200S. It does, however, take several months to build your membership,<br />

and you should not expect to achieve these levels during your first year. 9 of the 10 centers exceeded the<br />

revenue and income projections in the first (400 members) column, 5 exceeded the revenue and income<br />

projections in the second (600 members) column, and 4 exceeded the revenues and income projections in<br />

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