Introductions

My name is Byron Shirley; I am a 24 years-old business student and aspiring entrepreneur. The Past two and a half years, I was Director of Interactive Marketing at an Internet company i helped found, Jiggerbug.com. I left the company in August, and at the invitation of Philippe, a close family friend, will work with and for him distributing his product--radiant heating. Radiant heating is a form of a heating which works by having either electrical or hot water tubing installed, usually, underneath floors, particularly tile floors. My product is electrical, and Philippe--a Frenchman like me--left French having won over sixty percent of the underfloor heating market there. Now, Philippe thinks I can do the same thing in California, starting with my home bases of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

So, in preparation for hitting the California market (and by extent, the entire West Coast as well) Philippe has invited me several times last year to visit him in Quebec, where his company is based, and now for six month, where I will be selling his cable all over the Quebec Province. And that's where this Blog comes in; a few of my friends have asked me to start one to chronicle my experience of this very particular bit of Canada, with its Quebecois French- and English-mingling population and the Amerindian tribes further North of Quebec City (Which will be my 'home base').

I hope you will enjoy this! It for you as well that I am doing this. :)

-Byron Shirley