Help me!

I'm participating in a Dutch business plan contest in which the most original business idea can get 25,000 euros in seed funding. If I win, I won't see a dime of the money itself, instead the organizing company will pay my bills until the 25 grand has been spent.

Here's the catch. In the end, a jury is going to make a choice between the different ideas. But the preselection is done by website visitors.

So if you'd all be so kind to click here and vote for me, I would be much obliged. You can vote once a day and all votes add to the end total, so please keep it up!

I need to be with the first twenty to be able to be nominated, and currently, I'm somewhere in the eighties (after only half a day) so it should be doable.

HERE'S HOW TO VOTE: (yes, it works for foreigners too)
1. Go to this address.
2. Click 'Stem' in the little grey box (down the page, in the right-hand side of the screen).
3. Click the box next to 'Ik wil me inschrijven voor de dagelijkse zibb.nl nieuwsbrief'.
4. Enter [yourfirstname]@isopeda.nl as an email address. (Try [yourfirstandlastname]@isopeda.nl if this doesn't work. This can happen when someone with a similar first name has already voted before you that day.)
5. Click 'nu stemmen!'.
6. If you get a quiz, choose either one of the three options and click 'nu stemmen' again.

You have just voted for me and signed me up for the newsletter they force down your throat. I will deal with that, I am just grateful for y'all taking the trouble.

Don't forget that you can vote once a day, with the same email address that you used at 4). So please, pretty please, with lots of sugar or Nutrasweet on top (depending on your New Year diet plans), bookmark the site and return every day for the next few weeks.

Oh, and the business plan itself? That's for a website called www.paarsekrokodil.nl (Purple Crocodile) which will enable Dutch customers to spout their anger about bureaucracy and bad service they've encountered in their contacts with Dutch companies. The website is named after a rather (in)famous commercial which satirizes the customer disservice endemic amongst many Dutch companies. I've got ideas how to make such a website profitable and customer-friendly too, of course, but you'll forgive me for not posting those here.

(Yes, I've already claimed the domain name.)

Thanks for voting!

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