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Posted on Nov 20, 2007 under business |
A fascinating and largely unknown story of business triumph and racial inequality comes to life in Montreal, Canada.
Jean Conille was no ordinary kid. Born in Haiti on August 12th, 1967, he was the third of a family of four. His father a well known physician, later became minister of sports and youth. His mother was a pharmacist and a lab technician.
Gifted with a phenomenal memory, a systematic and orderly approaches to problem solving, at age 7 he had already competed in the national chess championship in his native Haiti. He traveled to Montreal where he would finish high school at the age of 15 after successfully skipping two grades.
Upon graduating, he was chosen as a finalist by the Montreal chamber of commerce for the “Outstanding Student” award. He was designated as one of “Canada’s future leaders”.
Jean Conille went on to pursue his studies at College Andre Laurendeau in Physics Technology. During this period, his mother died from a chronic illness. He never quite completed the program as he chose to follow in the foot steps of great entrepreneurs such as Warren Buffet and Bill Gates.
At age 19, he started his first business, a very flourishing telecommunication company, which he named after his mother “Les Entreprises Marie Darbouze”.
Already at age 22, Jean was a self made millionaire.
“Being black, wealthy and young in Montreal in the 80’s or even today is highly irregular” says Jean. “Canada may have grown a lot in the matter of race discrimination, unfortunately the stereotypes still remain. Unless you are an athlete or a known entertainer, driving a luxurious car can only mean you are either a thug or involved in some type of illegal activity”. With a cynical look, Jean adds: “I remember when I was younger, being pulled over more then 17 times with in a week by cops, just because I was driving a new Mercedes.”
Jean talks about his dealings with the bank as being one of the most challenging events in his career. “The banks, back then, would simply not understand why a black teenager would want to open up a business account let alone consider a loan”.
Even following his numerous achievements, he continues to be seen as an outsider to this private club of influential deciders. “They will do business with you, but they want invite you to there weddings or even to there children’s bar mitzvahs”.
By challenging the social injustices we evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
Jean as recently created a foundation, “The Jean Conille foundation” to reach out to young ethnic entrepreneurs and help them achieve their goals and to educate the population on the contribution made by visible minorities to the Canadian society.
Twenty years later, Jean still gets mistaken for a bouncer at an exclusive supper club he owns. That doesn’t seem to bother him much though. With a smile, he gently hands me out his business card where you can clearly read at the bottom: “Some see the world the way it is and ask “why?” But I imagine things that never were and ask “why not?”…
Posted on Nov 19, 2007 under business, networking |
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Posted on Nov 06, 2007 under business, marketing |
Brandon Connell is well known for his internet marketing expertise. With well over a decade of experience, Brandon has helped a great number of clients gain top 10 natural rankings in various search engines. Brandon started RankRover back in 2002 to officially offer his services on the internet.
Recently, Brandon started developing The Quality Report which is a consumer reporting website that promotes the positive reporting concept.
Currently, Brandon Connell lives in Galesburg with his family. He provides search engine marketing services and controls multiple ecommerce businesses. Brandon invests in real estate in his spare time. He is also a registered songwriter and recording artist with B.M.I.
Posted on Nov 06, 2007 under business, consumer, merchants |
UNITED PAYMENT SERVICES Introduces MAAS (Merchant Application Acceptance System). A Revolutionary New Online Application System reducing Merchant Sign Up Time to minutes with no signatures required. MAAS is simply the easiest merchant Application system in the industry. merchants click to agree and are automatically sent to underwriting where they are approved in 4 hours or less. No Hardcopy signature is rfequired.
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Most sales organizations become bogged down with the multitude of paperwork required by traditional credit card processing companies. The normal application process is for sales organizations to fax or email an application to the merchant and then wait for the merchant to fill out the application and fax it back with a long list of required paperwork. This ends up losing time, money, and many opportunities. Not to mention all the merchants lost while they continue to shop using the waited upon paperwork as ammunition for the competition.
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United Payment Services is a payment and transaction service provider serving sales organizations in the credit card processing industry. United Payment Services has been providing superior service and products to Agents and Merchants alike. Our business is built on years of experience and is powered by First Data, a Fortune 500 company and the very first processor for both Visa® and MasterCard®. Our company provides payment processing services for Visa, MasterCard, Discover®, American Express®, Diners Club®, JCB®, ATM, debit cards, check conversion and guarantee programs, state-of-the-art equipment and ground breaking merchant reporting. Our corporate mission is defined by our dedication to the success of your sales organization.
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United Payment Services offers credit and ATM/debit card processing, check guarantee services, purchasing card programs and Internet electronic commerce capabilities to businesses of all sizes. Built on many years of experience in the payment processing industry and powered by First Data, a fortune 500 company and the very first processor for both VISA® and MasterCard® bank-issued credit cards in 1976, United Payment Services is uniquely positioned to execute our corporate mission…
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Whether working with a start-up corner store or a public corporation, the United Payment Services team respects every customer and treats them with the highest level of professionalism and courtesy at all times.
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