Our Mission

A personal invitation from the Chiefs of Wallettt Inc.

​​Dear Neighbor,

My partner (wife) and I have been blessed with the distinct privilege of relocating our lives and our business to Quebec in the past year.

Changes are always difficult, uncertain, and can be so exciting at the same time, when we are able to dream big in a new landscape, such as the Laurentians.

After an exhilarating nomadic business and personal journey for a year in Europe and Eurasia, we were ready to settle down and reform our software company to the next level.

We settled in Saint-Adele. We were quickly and deeply welcomed into the community, an issue that we feared about language and cultural differences coming from Ontario.

We saw so much opportunity, but also vacancies and scarcity in this beautiful city.

We asked ourselves: "How can our company help, and how can we give?"

Can we effect breakthroughs for entrepreneurs, so they can sing over the walls that we face when we try to build, grow, and sustain our families?

An idea that had been on the back burner for some time re-emerged, and was a perfect fit for helping us integrate into our new home city and headquarters, and we knew it could help countless others as well. 
We got busy planning and strategizing something we themed by the words 'mur' and 'chant'. It should use technology, with which we have much experience, to remove the barriers to business, and allow entrepreneurs to sing again.

To build a successful Murchants Hub, we envision a collaborative network between municipal agencies, local businesses, and chambers of commerce. It is founded on free, quality advertising and facilitating improved communication and transactions among local stakeholders. 
Ease of use and rapid growth at no cost for entrepreneurs in the Laurentian and Pays-d'en-Haut regions will enhance any local business' synergy with peers, vendors, customers, and consultants who can help, and be helped by you.

Our mission essentially grows a simple technological solution and marketing approach into a thriving community that solves many challenges faced by all. 
Technology often separates us and makes our business' opaque, rather than forming the practical, yet often unknown solutions we crave.
 
Many platforms exist to find team members, gain local and online visibility, and exchange among municipal and economic actors, however they are not integrated: 
* They do not curate and nurture the local entrepreneurial spirit. 
* They find it difficult to provide a free and agile system. 
* They are distant software corporations without a local footprint in the communities they 'serve'. 
* They are full of fake and spam listings and 'bots'.
* They don't integrate French and English.
* They combine links to disparate resources, but fail to empower mentorship conversations, we are lost in a sea of digital information. 

Objectives and Vision
* Offer a free web platform to publish collaborative classified announcements. 
* Facilitate commercial exchange, including investment, employment and procurement tools. 
* Share resources to empower smooth and powerful conversations among members. 
* Develop and sustain the network quickly without costs to the community and its stakeholders, to ensure wide adoption. 
* Promote and deliver bilingual system integration to remove language and cultural barriers.

Identification of Key Stakeholders
* Municipal/Provincial agencies (MRC, Chamber of Commerce, public services, economic development, etc.). 
​* Local businesses (brick-and-mortar and work-from-home) of all sizes and sectors. 
* Benevolent societies and private patrons. 
* Citizens seeking employment and volunteer positions.

Networking and Partnership Strategy
* Engage agencies to collaborate in their mandated purpose of stimulating and supporting the startup, relocation (to Quebec), growth, and sustainability of local economic health. 
* Collaborate with agencies to harness diverse sources of information, policies, and opportunities, in one central place.
* Organize events (meetings, workshops, webinars) to encourage in-person participation, so that entrepreneurs know one another as local peers.

The Platform
* Simple, intuitive classified ad platform accessible for free. 
* Profiles for businesses and agencies with full context of their role in the local community. 
* Discoverability, recommendations, and search by detailed criteria. 
* Integration of business network management tools to animate and track interactions. 
* Targeted communication campaigns on social media and by direct email articles. 
* Enable referrals to quickly expand the network and get people working together. 
* Collect user feedback to improve the platform and services. 
* Leverage ratings and comment sources (Google Reviews, Trustpilot, etc.) for social proof and authority of entrepreneurs and their operations. 
* Measure activity and impact through indicators (number of ads, interactions, partnerships created, economic stimulation created, employment roles filled, etc.).

Future Perspectives
* Solicit information sharing (direct email correspondence) by contacting every business in the service area who wants to participate. 
* Launch a focus group forum with events to garner inputs and insights for success. 
* Develop partnerships with other cities or regions to expand the network. 
* Integrate collaborative projects (e.g., investment sources, circular economy, sustainable development) linked to greater markets (online and offline). 

We sing out our invitation from Saint-Adele, Quebec, over all the walls that separate us in our beautiful and vibrant region, and sincerely hope that you will aid us in building a happy and sustainable future for our families.

Let's make our entrepreneurial dreams meet their real-world destinies, let's simply talk. 
 
+ Christopher Batt ("chris" -at- "wallettt.com") 
+ Patricia Menjao  ("patricia" -at- "wallettt.com") 
WALLETTT INC. 
https://Wallettt.com 
"Future You So Richly Deserve."