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What Marketing Is & Isn’t<\/h2>\n

Today on the BCP Show we talk with Tom Smodic. Tom is the Operations Manager at Spark Marketer, our marketing agency for service contractors, and today he\u2019s here to talk about what marketing is and isn\u2019t, and what it can and can\u2019t do for your business.<\/p>\n

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