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Is there a manual for success? YES!<\/h2>\n

Today on the BCP Show we talk with Al Levi. Don’t you wish life came with an operating manual? What about parenting? I doubt we’ll ever see those, but you CAN have an operations manual for your business – you just have to write it first.
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