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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m against the sale as proposed
Here is the MOU for the proposed deal.
First let me start by saying that this is the first time I feel compelled to take a strong stance in any political issue. This stance is not motivated by political preference, in fact when I vote, I vote based on the ideas [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrancofrenette.com%2Fblog%2Fsale-of-nb-power-to-hydro-quebec%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrancofrenette.com%2Fblog%2Fsale-of-nb-power-to-hydro-quebec%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><h3><img class="alignleft" style="float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" src="http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/cart.gif" alt="" width="300" height="200" />I&#8217;m against the sale as proposed</h3>
<p>Here is the <a href="http://www.lowerratesnb.ca/downloads/MOU_EN.pdf" target="_blank">MOU</a> for the proposed deal.</p>
<p>First let me start by saying that this is the first time I feel compelled to take a strong stance in any political issue. This stance is not motivated by political preference, in fact when I vote, I vote based on the ideas proposed, not the political party of the candidate. I&#8217;ve voted for Liberals, PC, and NDP in the past.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not personal against Shawn Graham even if it&#8217;s hard to remain indifferent to someone who outright lies in your face and has the nerve to try and sell you those lies as truth with your own money. Prior to this issue however, I thought Shawn Graham did an ok Job&#8230; he took difficult decisions that seemed to be geared towards the greater good of New-Brunswick.</p>
<p>That changed when he decided to negotiate <em><strong>secretly</strong></em> with Quebec &amp; Hydro Quebec leaders to sell the greatest asset that New-Brunswickers have in their name.</p>
<p>My stance on this issue is not an emotional response. In fact when I first heard Shawn Graham describe the deal and the benefits like lower rates, elimination of provincial debt, retention of regulations and rate increase protection&#8230; I was almost sold. Then, I read the <a href="http://www.lowerratesnb.ca/downloads/MOU_EN.pdf" target="_blank">MOU</a> and did some research and found out all the selling points that got me thinking &#8220;hmm, maybe it is a good deal&#8221; were all debunked&#8230; turns out it&#8217;s all untrue, it&#8217;s not as good a deal as it might appear on the surface.</p>
<p>Let me outline each reason why I&#8217;m against this proposed deal (for the record, let me re-state that I&#8217;m not against ever selling NB Power to another Crown corporation or even to the private sector&#8230; but it has to make SENSE).<span id="more-64"></span></p>
<h2>1) This government does NOT have the mandate to sell NB Power.</h2>
<p>That&#8217;s the whole point of a democracy isn&#8217;t, to get to vote for who we believe will represent us to make the good decisions on important issues? I understand that it&#8217;s sometimes impossible for government to predict the future and that they have to deviate from the electoral promises, however when it&#8217;s a big issue that affects the rest of the population forever in the future and you got elected because of a specific stance you took on this important issue, you can&#8217;t change your mind unless the people that elected you agree with you.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re merely a representative of the people. If you&#8217;re going to do the opposite of what they elected you to do, you have to check with them to see if they agree with you. Let the democratic process decide, not your personal opinion &#8211; there&#8217;s too much at stake to rely on the personal opinion of a few. Instead we should rely on the opinion of experts to get FACTS and then let the people make a decision based on those FACTS.</p>
<p><strong>The stance they got elected for:</strong> (please read page 16 of the 2006 liberal electoral pamphlet &#8220;<a href="http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/Charter_English.pdf" target="_blank">Charter for Change &#8211; Shawn Graham’s plan for a better New Brunswick</a>&#8221; )</p>
<blockquote><p>1) The people of New Brunswick are the shareholders of NB Power.<br />
2) Maintain NB Power as a <strong>publicly-owned utility</strong> that will serve all New Brunswickers equally. (please note the emphasis with the text in bold, that&#8217;s their emphasis from their own <a href="http://http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/Charter_English.pdf" target="_blank">pamphlet</a>, not mine)</p></blockquote>
<p>Now a few weeks ago we learn that they have been negotiating  behind closed doors for quite a while on a deal to sell. Members of his own party are frustrated by this change of stance as they know it will make it hard for them to earn votes in next Septembers&#8217; election if they stay with this party.</p>
<p>At their biennial policy convention in Fredericton last Saturday November 14th 2009, One fellow delegate pointed out that Graham had promised during the 2006 campaign not to privatize the utility. His simple reply: &#8220;I changed my mind.&#8221; (source: <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091114/national/nb_liberals" target="_blank">Canadian Press Via Yahoo News</a>)</p>
<p>I say that if you want to change your mind on such a critical issue that got you elected in the first place, you should then let the people go to the polls to see if they change their mind in having you represent them on this issue.</p>
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<h2>2) This does NOT reduce the province&#8217;s NET Debt or make any economic sense whatsoever</h2>
<p>One of the biggest selling points Shawn makes for this deal is that it will represent the biggest payment in history on the province&#8217;s debt. He mentions that it will represent paying off 40% of the province&#8217;s debt. And so, it would help our credit rating and allow the province more financial power to invest in other important provincial sectors.</p>
<p>The problem here is that it&#8217;s all false! NB Power&#8217;s debt is self-served. NB Power pays down its own debt. What this means is that paying off that debt will NOT help the province&#8217;s financial position <span style="text-decoration: underline;">AT ALL</span>. In fact, it will actually <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Worsen it</span>! We will be getting rid of a profitable asset (<a href="http://www.nbpower.com/html/en/about/publications/EngCombined.pdf" target="_blank">2008-2009 income statement</a>) (<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/pdf/david-hay-letter-to-staff.pdf" target="_blank">nice overview by CEO in letter to staff</a>) to pay of a debt that is already getting paid down by this asset . NB Power has disbursed around $100 million per year for the past 5 years in profits, taxes and fees to the provincial government. Money the province will stop receiving after the sale (because Hydro Quebec will not be paying taxes to New-Brunswick) and will have to recoup elsewhere by either cutting other services, increasing the provincial net debt or finding other ways to generate that money (like perhaps increase taxes?).</p>
<p>The New-Brunswick Auditor General shares this opinion:</p>
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<h2>3) There&#8217;s no financial benefit to residential &amp; small businesses customers</h2>
<p><img src="http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/graph.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>The second big selling point Graham mentions is that residential customers will receive big savings. He says that of the anticipated 5 billion in savings (more on that below), residential customers will be receiving over 60% of the savings. Yay, sounds good doesn&#8217;t it? It would sound better if it were actually true and not some imaginary figure he must have dreamed up. In reality small businesses and residential customers will only be receiving about 21% combined while Industry will receive around 79%. Hmm, could it be that Industry influenced or encouraged this deal to happen? Even if that&#8217;s not true, I&#8217;m not sure why he lies to people to make this deal sound like a good thing for them. In actuality there is NO immediate savings. There is just savings IF Shawn Graham can effectively predict the future and if he does then I&#8217;d like to get his opinion on a few stocks.</p>
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<p>The savings are not even real savings. There would actually be <strong>NO rate reduction</strong> for NB residential &amp; small business. Read that again- <span style="text-decoration: underline;">None</span>. The &#8220;savings&#8221; they speak of are based on a 5 year rate freeze (while industry get a reduction to what Hydro Quebec Industry customers pay). You only save with a rate freeze IF rates would go up. How can he predict it will go up with certainty? And even if it does go up, we&#8217;re not really saving all that much. Then after 5 years what happens? We have a foreign company controlling our rates. If you thought government was doing a poor job regulating rates when THEY were the shareholder, <em>then just imagine how good a job they&#8217;ll be doing when it&#8217;s actually owned by someone else</em>.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;" src="http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/charest-graham.jpg" alt="" />In fact, if our government had even ASKED that we pay the same rate as Hydro Quebec customers pay (representing a REAL saving of around 30% of our current rates) my guess is that they would have accepted. But he never even TRIED to make that part of the deal. So who is he REALLY doing this deal for, Industry or everyone else? You decide.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/front/article/853651&amp;p=2" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s the CEO of Hydro Quebec on this</a>. Read between the lines and see what he thinks of the great negotiating prowess of our fine government <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada/NB/ID=1326807382" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s a video</a> with similar questions being asked by CBC News (note the avoidance of answering the question of residential rate reduction <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  )</p>
<p>Of course now that the government is seeing that New-Brunswickers are not quite as gullible as they had estimated, <a href="http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/rss/article/859697" target="_blank">they&#8217;re already starting to back-track on these promises a bit</a> <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I&#8217;d like to encourage them to continue in that direction. Beep Beep Beep&#8230; keep on backing up that big stinky truck all the way back to when you were keeping your promise not to sell out NB Power and maybe your Liberals party will stand a chance to get re-elected again in the future.</p>
<h2>4) The deal only makes sense to Hydro Quebec</h2>
<p>Quite simply Hydro Quebec would be idiots NOT to take this deal (almost bigger idiots than we are for offering it). Let me explain why I came to this conclusion.</p>
<p><em><strong>1) We&#8217;re selling a PROFITABLE business for the debt it owes -not what it&#8217;s worth</strong></em>.</p>
<p>A debt that is currently being paid down by the customers it services (debt interest and capital repayment are built-in our rates).</p>
<p>Now to put this in perspective imagine that you own an apartment building that is producing income for you every month&#8230; you use this money to pay your own personal debts and finance a portion of your lifestyle. You&#8217;ve owned this building for years so you don&#8217;t really know what it&#8217;s worth but you know you owe $20,000 on the mortgage. Lately, your own personal debt is getting a little out of control and the income from your apartment building is not enough anymore. So you decide to sell it&#8230; before getting it appraised and since you don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s worth, you conclude that selling it for the $20,000 you owe on it is great cause you&#8217;re going to pay off that debt&#8230; PLUS to sweeten the deal, you made the buyer agree to NOT increase the rent for the unit you rent for yourself and live in for the next 5 years.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" style="float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" src="http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/iStock_000005970094XSmall2.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="133" />Does that make any sense at all? First off, why would you sell something that is potentially worth much more than what you owe on it. Secondly, your financial position is worst because you&#8217;ve just gotten rid of your income producing asset that was helping you pay down your other debts and live your lifestyle. Also, what happens after the 5 year rent freeze? If I were you, I&#8217;d start looking into buying your own house and getting a job, cutting down on your current expenses, begging for money or declaring bankruptcy because if you thought your debt situation was bad then, you&#8217;re in for a shock when you realize you made a big mistake in getting rid of an income-producing asset to pay off a self-paying debt and kept the real liability debts <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><em>2) We&#8217;re giving them NB Power for FREE.</em></strong></p>
<p>So if we&#8217;re paying that debt through our current rates and our rates will stay the same. What are we paying? I&#8217;ll tell you &#8211; we&#8217;re still paying the debt, except it&#8217;s Hydro Quebec&#8217;s Debt now&#8230; so we&#8217;ll be paying THEIR debt. Hmm&#8230; ok so we&#8217;re not really receiving 4.75$billion, we&#8217;re just transferring the debt to Hydro Quebec but also paying it for them. Sorry for the language here but there&#8217;s no other words to describe it &#8211; we&#8217;re getting screwed from every side here. New-Brunswickers need to think about this.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re giving them NB Power in exchange for assuming the Debt it owes but yet, will continue to pay that debt for them. Read that a few more time and see how you like this deal <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Back to our apartment building analogy. It&#8217;s the same as if I told you I&#8217;ll give you my apartment building if you just assume the mortgage. You would be crazy not to take it&#8230; the tenants from that building have been paying down that debt and will continue to do so until it&#8217;s paid off! You&#8217;re getting a building that is going to produce income for you for no money out of pocket. Talk about the deal of the century.</p>
<p><strong><em>3) It&#8217;s NOT a 10 billion dollar deal</em></strong></p>
<p>That one makes me smile <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . They keep using the figure 10$ billions, &#8220;we&#8217;re in the middle of a 10 billion dollar deal here, we can&#8217;t put all our cards on the table&#8221; Hey, you don&#8217;t have any cards left to show, you already showed your middle pair and dealt them a royal flush.</p>
<p>So lets look at where they get that self-gratifying 10$ billion figure. They say we&#8217;re getting 4.75$ billion because we&#8217;re transferring our debt to them. Fair enough, but where is the other 5.25 billion? Oh, well, that&#8217;s the &#8220;potential savings into the eternity of the future&#8221;. What the hell! Do they really think we&#8217;re that dumb. It&#8217;s easy to make up numbers for the future and say that rates won&#8217;t go up, inflation will not go up and that we&#8217;ll be saving in the long run and then make up numbers to go along with this wishful thinking. First of all, you can&#8217;t predict the future, no one can and besides if someone could, it wouldn&#8217;t be Shawn Graham!</p>
<p><img class="alignright" style="float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" src="http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/unicorn.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="100" />But lets play along with this lala Dreamland scenario for a second but lets put all the figures on the table. Why are they only figuring the money we&#8217;d be &#8220;saving&#8221; to come up with this 10$billion figure? If you&#8217;re gonna make up numbers, at least put all the numbers in the equation. How about subtracting the 100$ million per year revenue you&#8217;ve been banking from NB Power each year? You won&#8217;t be receiving it anymore and I have news for you, even in lala dreamland 100$million / year X infinity = more than 5$billion so let me make up my own number without backing it up since you seem to like to play make believe like that. I predict that inflation will go up higher than you&#8217;re predicting it, I predict Hydro Quebec WILL increase rates higher than you&#8217;re thinking and I&#8217;m subtracting 100$million a year in lost revenue for the next 100 years so I say this is a <span style="color: #ff0000;">NEGATIVE 5 billion dollar deal</span> (<span style="color: #ff0000;">-5,000,000,000.00</span>). Wow, this is fun, while I&#8217;m in lala land, I&#8217;m going to go see how much money I&#8217;m gonna win from the lottery next week and go hop on Shawn Graham&#8217;s orange unicorn and go ask the bank to loan me the money beforehand.</p>
<p>4) <strong>We&#8217;re giving up our energy infrastructure</strong>&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;To another province and the only province that has tried multiple times to separate itself from Canada and become it&#8217;s own country. That&#8217;s a scary thought. And they don&#8217;t really have a good track record of being fair in deals with other provinces in matter of energy. If you&#8217;re not familiar with the rotten Churchill Falls deal Newfoundland got stuck in for 65 years then just do a Google search or take a look at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUBAnpONuDI" target="_blank">this video</a> for an overview of what happened.</p>
<p>Take a look at the warning the premier of that province has for us. If he gives you the impression that he cares more about our future than our own premier, don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;re not alone, I get that impression too.</p>
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<p>Now I&#8217;m not saying they&#8217;re going to lock us into any 65 years contract or be unfair in any way to us like they were to them or anything like that, I mean they could be nicer to us because we have a larger population of french people or we&#8217;re their buddies or something, never know.</p>
<p>One thing&#8217;s for sure though, they have their own agenda. Go figure, they&#8217;re not just doing this to help us out. I know, I know&#8230; disappointing, here we were thinking they were the good Samaritans helping poor little NB out. No actually it turns out they would like to create a central energy hub and use our favorable geographic position to sell more of its cheap Churchill Falls hydro electric power to the US. That rings a bell actually, not sure why&#8230; oh yeah, that was the same thing Shawn Graham promised he&#8217;d set up during his term&#8230; well if you can&#8217;t accomplish it, no reason to let the idea go to waste&#8230; let Quebec make the money off our back, at least someone will benefit from that great idea.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Forbes:</span> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/feeds/reuters/2009/10/29/2009-10-29T215540Z_01_N29356252_RTRIDST_0_HYDROQUEBEC-NBPOWER-UPDATE-4.html" target="_blank">&#8220;Hydro-Quebec sees U.S. growth via NB Power assets&#8221;</a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Montreal Gazette:</span> <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Hydro+Qu%C3%A9bec+most+Power+assets/2158623/story.html">&#8220;New Brunswick is ideally positioned to be an energy hub and Hydro-Québec will develop that potential, Vandal said.&#8221;</a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canadian Press:</span> <a href="http://money.aol.ca/article/hydro-quebec-eyeing-pei-power-deal-weeks-after-swallowing-nb-utility/737936/" target="_blank">&#8220;Hydro-Quebec eyeing P.E.I. power deal, weeks after swallowing N.B. utility&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Interesting choice of words &#8220;swallowing&#8221; isn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s easy to see the pattern here.</p>
<p>So if you think this deal is out of the blue, think again. They&#8217;ve been planning this energy hub for a long time and they&#8217;ve known New-Brunswick is the ideal corridor geographically to deliver that energy.</p>
<p>Of course if we were smart, we&#8217;d look at better alternatives to leverage our assets like for example; keeping our assets and lease our transmission lines, effectively increasing profits and paying down that debt faster but it&#8217;s much easier to sell the farm to pay what we owe on the pigs isn&#8217;t it.</p>
<h2>5) The people are opposed</h2>
<p><img src="http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/protesters2.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The last reason I&#8217;m opposed to this going forward is because the vast majority of people in New-Brunswick are opposed. Since this is a democracy or what&#8217;s left of it&#8230; the democratic thing to do is to let the people decide.</p>
<p>The government are spending 1$million of tax payer&#8217;s money on a propaganda campaign, putting ads on the radio, tv, newspapers and sending out full color brochures by mail, touting the positive benefits (after reading this post, I&#8217;ve debunked every false benefit they&#8217;ve brought forward). That alone is frustrating enough but what&#8217;s more frustrating is when the brainwashing doesn&#8217;t work and the people are STILL opposed, they continue to push forward, chalking up the lot of us to a group of emotional people who&#8217;ll eventually come around <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Just take a look at how many people are at this protest. For a small population of 750,000 people in the middle of the week when people are working to have this type of turn out says it all (estimates are between 1,000 to 2,000 people showed up at this first rally):</p>
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<p>Take a look at what people are saying on<a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=176387183904&amp;view=all#/group.php?v=wall&amp;gid=176387183904" target="_blank"> facebook, this group of people</a> OPPOSED to the sale has amost 25,000 people in it. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there&#8217;s still people in NB who think this is a good deal, there&#8217;s a group on Facebook for them too <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=176387183904&amp;view=all#/group.php?gid=171881631230&amp;ref=search&amp;sid=619975437.3597583271..1" target="_blank">here</a>. They&#8217;re 28 at time of writing this. 28/25,000 nice ratio.</p>
<p>You can also get a feel for what people think about this by looking at the comments section of any news item discussing this.</p>
<p>You can also just look at the website the government setup called &#8220;<a href="http://www.lowerratesnb.ca/nb/?p=1">lower Rates NB</a>&#8221; in the section &#8220;Join the conversation&#8221; to see what people think of this deal. (btw, I think that&#8217;s an interesting choice for a name. They could have called it something neutral like &#8220;NB power Sale&#8221; but that would against they&#8217;re propaganda / brainwashing strategy)</p>
<p>What do you think about this deal or the points I discussed in this post? Agree? Disagree? If any politician read this, I&#8217;d love for you to contribute to the dialog, just leave your comments bellow.</p>
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		<title>What is QuanSite?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think of QuanSite as a team of people working for you. Not just regular people however, they&#8217;re connected to you. A natural extensions of yourself.
The Perfect Designer
The Designer follows your directions to the T, he gives you a bunch of initial designs to start with. You decide which you prefer. From there, you ask him [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrancofrenette.com%2Fblog%2Fwhat-is-quansite%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrancofrenette.com%2Fblog%2Fwhat-is-quansite%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p><img align="left" alt="QuanSite" border="0" height="220" hspace="3" src="http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/quansite.gif" width="280" />Think of <a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php" target="_blank">QuanSite</a> as a team of people working for you. Not just regular people however, they&#8217;re connected to you. A natural extensions of yourself.</p>
<h2><strong>The Perfect Designer</strong></h2>
<p>The Designer follows your directions to the T, he gives you a bunch of initial designs to start with. You decide which you prefer. From there, you ask him to modify the header, the colors, move things around and modify this and that.</p>
<p>You can simply make a mock-up of what you&#8217;re looking for in Word or your favorite graphic program and he does it for you. Except he takes 0 seconds do to it because he&#8217;s directly connected to your brain <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  As soon as you click and drag something in your  program to another area, it auto-magically happens on your site. If you choose to layout your page in familiar Word-like interface, the same thing happens.</p>
<p>If you wish to add some graphics, html or text anywhere within your site, he adds it instantly without having to dig into code. You&#8217;d like something appearing under that menu in the sidebar or how about under every blog post you make or above every page or wherever else. It&#8217;s fine, anything&#8217;s possible and instant with him!</p>
<blockquote>
<h3><em>What&#8217;s having an on-demand Designer like that worth to you?</em></h3>
<h3><em>On top of that, how much time would you save not having to convey your vision correctly to the designer. How much frustration would you save by not having to have him do revision after revision because he didn&#8217;t understand your vision correctly?</em></h3>
</blockquote>
<h2><strong>The Genius Programmer</strong></h2>
<p>The Programmer is always there when you need him. No need to pay him full time or else wait until he&#8217;s free to handle your workload. He&#8217;s honest, lightning fast, super talented and always there 24/7. He lives and breath YOUR site and your site only! He immediately understands what you need without any need to rack your brains trying to communicate your ideas. He understands you because he is an extension of you!</p>
<p>You need to display your latest blog posts, blog pages, videos, site comments or maybe pull in content from somewhere else via an RSS feed. Maybe you also need these things layed-out in a certain manner that looks exactly like what you have in mind, have some html added automatically above or below these &#8220;content blocks&#8221;. Maybe you&#8217;d like to have a little summary of those blog posts to appear too, but only so many characters so it looks exactly like what you have in mind. It&#8217;s fine, he does it instantly because he knows exactly what you need and he works with your Designer to make it look good because they know you and what you want. They&#8217;re both extensions of you!</p>
<p>This is a genius programmer so if you needed those things on your home page or external pages (need one created, BAM, done! Add or modify to an existing one? Re-BaM!)- it doesn&#8217;t matter. If you wanted this content to be displayed only once to motivate your visitors to take action now (One time offers), it&#8217;s fine, he knows you wanted that because you selected the one time offer. So now he asks you what content to display after they&#8217;ve viewed the one time offer content already.</p>
<p>There are some section and pages of your site that you need redirected somewhere else just for now or permanently. That&#8217;s fine, he does it on-the-fly.</p>
<p>Maybe you need some files uploaded but you don&#8217;t care to use ftp or complicated programs. That&#8217;s fine too, just tell him which files you want to upload from your computer and he uploads them in your desired location.</p>
<p>You also need to change the structure of your site completely! Right away! You just ask him:</p>
<ol>
<li>Change this side bar, put it there, remove this sidebar completely.</li>
<li>Change these menu items</li>
<li>Add this footer and oh yeah&#8230;</li>
<li>If it&#8217;s not too much to ask could you also make sure that commenters on my blog get auto-responded by email thanking them for their comments?</li>
<li>Sorry, I keep thinking of things as we go along &#8212;Could you also link article A, B and C together so they&#8217;re in a a series, I want to make it easier on my readers to follow the articles series I wrote without having to dig for them.</li>
<li>As if you didn&#8217;t have enough to do, could you also re-order my categories. The default alphabetical order isn&#8217;t cutting it anymore, there are some categories that take precedence that I&#8217;d like to feature above others, here&#8217;s the order &#8220;&#8230;&#8221;</li>
<li>Oops, I almost forgot, I have this text file with a BUNCH of articles I wrote, I&#8217;d like you to write a script to add them automatically at set intervals, so that article 1 is added in 5 days, article 2 in another 5 days etc. It&#8217;s all in the file.</li>
<li>Ok last thing I promise; could you take the categories and move them to sidebar 2, then take the search bar and move it below the tags cloud? that will make it easier on the visitors to find what they want.</li>
</ol>
<blockquote><p>You continue&#8230; &#8220;When do you think you can have this done, I have a big launch next week so I hate to pressure you but it&#8217;s important.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>But Boss, <strong><u>it&#8217;s already all done</u></strong>; the fact that you explain these things mean they are getting done in real time because I am an extension of you!</p>
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<h3><em>What&#8217;s having things done instantly like this worth to you? How much would save in programming costs, costly time delays and frustration?</em></p>
<p><em></em></h3>
</blockquote>
<h2><strong>The Savvy Marketing Assistant</strong></h2>
<p><img src="http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/iStock_000001443193XSmall.jpg" /></p>
<p>You&#8217;re a business owner so you know marketing is the most critical of aspects to the success (or failure) of your business. Fail at marketing and all your efforts will be in vain. As a business owner you know your time is best spent Attracting, Connecting and Converting new customers. This is done by networking, building meaningful relationships and connecting with new people constantly.</p>
<p>Even if you know this, sometimes there are so many other tasks to take care of, things like managing programmers, designers, tinkering with technical things, etc. Then there are the marketing tasks that are so ever-necessary but still take time away from what you should really be doing!</p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have a savvy marketing assistant do all those tasks for you?</p>
<ul>
<li>Every time you made a new blog posts, the assistant pinged appropriate rss services</li>
<li>Distributed your videos across all video channels that you have accounts with like Youtube, Yahoo Video, Viddler, etc.</li>
<li>Bookmarked your posts at social bookmarking sites automatically (in accounts that are actively bookmarking other sites related to your niches too so they are in full compliance with  terms of service of those sites! No spammy &#8220;assistants&#8221; here that would get your business blacklisted! You DON&#8217;T need those troubles!)</li>
<li>Went in and made sure that the meta tags, urls , title tags and other SEO items are as you asked.</li>
<li>Made sure your audios are ready for syndication with services like Itunes.</li>
<li>Worked with your programmer and designer to make sure OTO (one time offer) pages and Squeeze Pages (pages without headers or footers or menus) worked like it should for maximum conversions.</li>
<li>Made sure your videos were branded, had viral potential by offering embed codes and redirected visitors automatically after playback to the destination page you wanted to take them.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<h3>What&#8217;s that type of time-saving worth to you? What&#8217;s YOUR time worth? How can you best spend your time? Hint: it doesn&#8217;t have to be spent on any of the above tasks anymore!</h3>
</blockquote>
<h1>Ok, So&#8230;</h1>
<p>You might have guessed that these aren&#8217;t actual people but more like <em>Artificial Intelligence Robots</em> working with you, connected to your brain. I know it all sounds like sale mumbo-jumbo but I&#8217;m a web developer, not a marketer and I&#8217;m just trying to make a summary of what QuanSite is exactly and what it can do for you. Describing it as people that work for you as extensions of yourself is the best I can describe it&#8230;So if it sounds like sales-talk, so be it <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<h3>The reality is that this system was built for business business owners by business owners. For marketers, by marketers. So these are all built-in features of the system designed to save you TIME, MONEY, ENERGY and FRUSTRATION! That&#8217;s the whole reason-for-existence of QuanSite! Again, what&#8217;s that worth to YOU?</h3>
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<p>But even with all these automated functions, there are still some <u>REAL people behind QUANSITE</u>. (else who would keep all those robots in check -right? <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  ).</p>
<h2><strong>The Savant Server Administrators</strong></h2>
<p>You&#8217;re used to worry about backups, your site getting hacked upgrades, updates, patches, bugs, bandwidth limits (if you suddenly got a big rush of visitors to your site, could it handle it, would your host shut you down for going over your bandwidth limit or using too much &#8220;cpu&#8221;?)</p>
<p>That&#8217;s just a fact of life online. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have people who do nothing but make sure your site runs smoothly, that are there to take care of issues right away. That make sure your backups are running, that your business is protected?</p>
<blockquote>
<h3>If you were to get your own server and hire a server administrator, how much would that cost you? It would still be small investment to make to ensure your business runs smoothly wouldn&#8217;t it?</h3>
</blockquote>
<h2><strong>QuanSite Support Team &amp; Training</strong></h2>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have a big support team, with different people to help you with any type of questions you might have, any help you might need? <a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php" target="_blank">QuanSite</a> has an amazing support team that works day-in day-out to make sure all the members are well taken care of and happy.</p>
<p>They also host things like webinars where people can attend and ask questions, and learn how to use the system better, live.</p>
<p>They also offer private concierge services where you can have the options of having someone dedicated to you to help you setup or run your website for you.</p>
<p>They also have a exhaustive training area, they show you how to do anything and everything with amazing tutorials and video instructions.</p>
<h2><strong>What&#8217;s YOUR time worth? Are you using your time most efficiently? </strong></h2>
<p>It all comes down to time. Time is the one resource you have that is non- renewable. As a business owner in PARTICULAR you have to ensure you use your time in the most efficient manner possible! So if you ever find yourself asking if the investment is worth it for a system like <a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php" target="_blank">QuanSite</a> that saves you so much precious time, energy, money, worry and frustration then simply ask yourself what you are gaining Vs the Investment required. Ask yourself what is saving 40 hours a month (the average time saved by QuanSite members) in necessary tasks mean to you and those close to you? Ask yourself if you would be happier not having to worry so much about the reliability of your business. Ask yourself if you would be happier if you didn&#8217;t have so many frustration-causing (but otherwise necessary) events in your days.</p>
<p>Ask yourself these life-changing questions and see if you can afford NOT to put all chances on your side to be all that you can be <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>You can bet you behind that if your competitors come across this, they WILL put this system to work for THEM. Why not get a head start? Or be left in the dust it&#8217;s up to you hehe. I&#8217;m allergic to dust so I don&#8217;t know about you&#8230; <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>To wrap up, here&#8217;s <a href="http://twitter.com/coachdeb" target="_blank">Coach Deb</a>, a founder of the system describing what QuanSite is.</p>
<p>If you have any questions or just want to chat, feel free to connect with me on <a href="http://twitter.com/francofrenette" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, or any of the sites in my sidebar.</p>
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		<title>Secret Society of the Quan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so all I&#8217;ve written about so far is QuanSite. There&#8217;s a reason. They say you should write about what you&#8217;re knowledgeable and passionate about. Considering QuanSite virtually takes up all my time lately, I better be both! So Expect more of it  
QuanSite isn&#8217;t officially launched at time of writing this and the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrancofrenette.com%2Fblog%2Fsecret-society-of-the-quan%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrancofrenette.com%2Fblog%2Fsecret-society-of-the-quan%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Ok, so all I&#8217;ve written about so far is <a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php">QuanSite</a>. There&#8217;s a reason. They say you should write about what you&#8217;re knowledgeable and passionate about. Considering QuanSite virtually takes up all my time lately, I better be both! So Expect more of it <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>QuanSite isn&#8217;t officially launched at time of writing this and the early birds will definitely benefit! There&#8217;s a elite group of people forming right now and you can be a part of it too. All you have to do is get on the list at QuanSite for free and you&#8217;ll be in the &#8220;Secret Society of the Quan&#8221;, you&#8217;ll get special invites and privileges, like free seats to nightly LIVE streaming strategy videos from JP and Deb Micek. This alone is worth its weight in gold. These are highly sought after marketing and business coaches and authors. Having advice from them for free is invaluable.</p>
<p>So get on that list, it&#8217;s one list you&#8217;ll be glad to be on! QuanSite should launch next Tuesday October 5th, 2009 so hurry up to get on this Secret Society of the Quan while there&#8217;s still time left! If you read this and it&#8217;s already launched, then head over directly to QuanSite here and save turbo charge your online business while easily saving 40 hours or more per month, per <a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php">QuanSite</a>. What would you do with that extra time?</p>
<p>Ask yourself a very serious question. What is YOUR time worth? QuanSite whole purpose of existence started with saving busy business owners precious time doing critical tasks for them, allowing them to spend more time doing whatever they want to do.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[This project has never excited me as much as it has in the past 3 months aside than maybe the day when JP and Deb Micek explained to me their vision of an all-in-one site building platform they intended to build for Marketers.
The project has grown at the speed of light since then. So much [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrancofrenette.com%2Fblog%2Fthe-quansite-revolution-begins%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrancofrenette.com%2Fblog%2Fthe-quansite-revolution-begins%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p><a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="QuansiteLogo" border="0" height="82" src="http://quansite.com/QuanSite_final-mdm.jpg" width="250" /></a>This project has never excited me as much as it has in the past 3 months aside than maybe the day when JP and Deb Micek explained to me their vision of an all-in-one site building platform they intended to build for Marketers.</p>
<p>The project has grown at the speed of light since then. So much so that it had out-grown it&#8217;s <u>own name</u>! You see it started as Blogi360 but as time went on, the blogging part of it became put one of the many components of this &#8220;Social Marketing Site Building Platform&#8221;.</p>
<p>So in the last 3 months we&#8217;ve all been working our behinds off everyday into the wee hours of the morning while most people slept, we were hard at work. This re-branding to <a href="http://francofrenette/Quansite.php" target="_blank">Quan$ite</a> is exciting for me as it encapsulates the true essence of what this system is and where it&#8217;s going in the future.</p>
<h3>What Is the Quan In Quansite?</h3>
<p>From the Urban Dictionary, this definition represents best what it means in the QuanSite context:</p>
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October 6, 2008 Urban Word of the Day</div>
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When you are one with something. Suggests unity or completion. A<br />
loosely defined quality combining or uniting athletic skill with love<br />
and respect, as well as money.</div>
<div class="example">This word is used in the movie Jerry Maguire by<br />
Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. &#8220;Jerry, you are the ambassador of<br />
quan.&#8221; And &#8220;Some players have coin, but I have the quan.&#8221;</div>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://francofrenette.com/TheQuan.php" target="_blank"><img alt="The Quan Jerry Maquire" border="0" height="318" src="http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/quan.jpg" width="530" /></a><br />
<em>Video: </em><em>The Quan in <span class="description">Jerry Maguire</span></em></p>
<p>I like to think as Quantum Physics. QuanSite really helps you warp time to your advantage so you can focus best on what you do best in your business instead of focusing on essential but ever so time-consuming tasks.</p>
<h3>What is it?</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s like a CMS (Content management system) on steroids that imprisoned a team of marketers, a few programmers, some designers and uses them as slaves for your business <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  That&#8217;s the best way I can describe it. It does the job of many and saves you a ton of  time &amp; effort so you can focus on other things- whatever it is you want to do, while your business grows organically.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php" target="_blank"><img alt="Deb Micek In QuanSite Revolution" border="0" class="aligncenter" height="342" src="http://francofrenette.com/blog/uploaded/quansiterevolution.jpg" width="398" /><br />
</a><em>Video: QuanSite Revolution Explained by Deb Micek &#8211; Co-Founder of QuanSite</em></p>
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<h3>Get Started Now!</h3>
<p align="left">What is 40 hours of work worth for you? This system easily saves you that many hours month after month if not more because honestly &#8211; it does things better than most of us ever could. In the words of Mike Filsaime during a recent interview with Deb Micek, it&#8217;s a real &#8220;search engine magnet&#8221; It does everything the search engines love, in an ethical and organic way, while respecting all  the site it ties into terms or service.</p>
<p align="left">If you&#8217;re lucky enough to signup in the pre-launch or during the launch, there&#8217;s a bunch of contests and bonuses that are really something. You can get more QuanSites for the same price, get all sorts of yummy bonuses and there are some contests where you can win some really cool stuff.</p>
<p align="left">So if you&#8217;re a business owner looking for that unfair advantage over your competitors and really dominate in your niche, then you owe it to yourself to get your own QuanSite and put it to work for you!</p>
<p align="left">As if you needed any more reason to try QuanSite, I&#8217;m so confident that you&#8217;ll find that it&#8217;s all that I say it is and more and that you&#8217;ll be blown away by the results that I&#8217;m willing to cover the price of your 30 days trial + give you $20.00 extra for your trouble if you try it and don&#8217;t agree <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Get those details <a href="http://francofrenette.com/QuanSiteCouponCode.php">here</a>.</p>
<h3 align="center"><a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php" target="_blank">Get your own QuanSite NOW!</a></h3>
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		<title>Getting started with my own QuanSite</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been working on this awesome website system called Blogi360 Quansite (rebranded as of 9/29/2009) for the past 2 years with the great folks of RpmSuccess JP &#38; Deb Micek and their great team along with my web development team.
I decided that I&#8217;ve been drooling over this system for long enough and frankly, getting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrancofrenette.com%2Fblog%2Fgetting-started-with-my-own-blogi360-site%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrancofrenette.com%2Fblog%2Fgetting-started-with-my-own-blogi360-site%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>So I&#8217;ve been working on this awesome website system called <strike><a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php" target="_blank">Blogi360</a></strike> <a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php" target="_blank">Quansite</a> (rebranded as of 9/29/2009) for the past 2 years with the great folks of <a href="http://rpmsuccess.com/" target="_blank">RpmSuccess</a> JP &amp; Deb Micek and their great team along with <a href="http://media-discounters.com" target="_blank">my web development team</a>.</p>
<p>I decided that I&#8217;ve been drooling over this system for long enough and frankly, getting kinda jealous of seeing everyone having their own <strike><a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php" target="_blank">Blogi360</a></strike> <a href="http://francofrenette.com/Quansite.php">QuanSite</a> site except me. So i decided that it&#8217;s been long enough &#8211; in the spirit of the new year this is my first official <strike>Blogi360</strike> QuanSite post.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been doing business online for the past 11 years or so and my business takes a great deal of my time so what you can expect to find here is mostly things relating to online business, technology and maybe even a little on health and fitness if I&#8217;ve been hitting the gym at the time and not working 24/7 sitting in front of the PC like a big fat night owl on too much caffeine <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I only like to talk about fitness when I am fit &#8211; otherwise I&#8217;m in denial that there&#8217;s even such a thing as gyms out there.</p>
<p>I have a <a href="http://blogbyfranco.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog on blogger</a> which I didn&#8217;t update in like a year, feel free to have a read while I write more posts on here <img src='http://francofrenette.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re a techno-biz geek like me, you&#8217;ll feel right at home here and I hope I get a chance to connect with you. Leave a comment and say hello.</p>
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