In my previous post, I told you about my husband's new invention, batBack.  Now, while this is free to bloggers and free to people who use blogs, we do hope that as more use of it picks up that advertisers will pay to use the advertising space that DH has created. Then we can retire and life on our yacht! (HA HA...well, a person has to dream). But seriously, this is just one of the irons my talented husband has in the fire as a way of trying to support our family.

Everything with batBack seems to be running just fine. With one exception, we can't get people to vote!  We have about 20 people signed up to use batBack so far, but people aren't clicking on the rate me button and voting. And if you don't do that, you won't realize how easy it makes commenting on blogs or how easy it makes it for you to find out more information! 

So I am resorting to bribery. I am having a voting contest! Click on the 'rate me' button and then click on the 'join' button. Fill in your information (and if you don't want to put batBack on your blog, that is fine, but to get credit for your votes, you will have to sign in, otherwise you will be anonymous).  Then get voting! 

Voting is simple and literally takes seconds!  You click on the 'rate me' button, move your mouse over the stars until you find the words that pop up describing how you feel about my article. You can vote in just one category or all of them, then click rate me and you are done! Of course if you want to get more use out of batBack, you can click on some of the other buttons at the bottom!  And there is a FAQ page and I will be glad to answer any questions you may have.

So here is the contest. RATE ME! From now until midnight EST Friday night, just sign up and rate my articles. The system keeps track of who is voting, but not what you vote (so you are free to say my article stinks if that is what you think). Then on Saturday I will announce whoever voted the most times. That person will be able to choose one of the books below.

So what do you have to lose? It won't take too much of your time, you will help my DH get a good test for how votes coming in will tax the batBack system, you will be in the running to win a prize and...if we do get that yacht, you will be welcome to visit anytime!

Thanks in advance for your help with this. While DH has been looking for work, he has spent a lot of time working on this project. We are hoping to eventually get to where he can work from home and won't have to travel so much (which is what he does when he works). He has put a lot of hours in on it trying to make it a wonderful tool for you to use.

Herbie Goes Bananas

Big Red (dog book) by Jim Kjelgaard

Hurlburts Story of the Bible

In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon

Reader's Digest Great Biographies (Lindbergh, Nightingale, Edison, Hans Christian Andersen)

Foxglove (mystery) by Mary Anne Kelly

Apples of Gold (inspirational verse)

Alexander Dolgun's Story (An American in the Gulag)

Girls of the Bible by H. A. Snyder