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Wow! After attending last year's convention, I thought it could not be topped but I must share with you what a tremendous learning experience this was. Just one of the ideas I got from Will Burke on "Yahoo Ads" advertising was well worth the trip. Of course the other material covered was just as great as many of us gleaned new ideas and marketing techniques from successful people who have learned a way to make things work better and they were willing to share that knowledge with all who attended.

It was great for me to meet the new people I have been working with over this past year as well as to meet and welcome long time VIP's. I left with a feeling of great anticipation as well as a feeling of loss as I felt that I would not see the people with whom I have become very fond of for another year. What camaraderie. To be able to have so much fun and to learn so many new features and ideas for success, both combined into this one event was tremendous.

And I just want to say to the 3 Amigos as well as to Mark South, Thanks for letting me hang out with you Guys! I'm looking for another female to keep me company with this prestigious group of Guys! Any Takers?

Can't wait to see you all there next year. Start making plans now!

Robbie Bracco
Florida, USA
Marketing Director/Executive Director

Hi To all who did and didn't get an opportunity to attend the National Convention in Orlando, Florida this wonderful year of 2005.

Although I was not able to attend the convention last year because of Family Health problems, this year was a real treat for me. To renew the relationships with the people that I had met on past conventions and cruises was a rewarding experience for me.

Even if you have been around the DHS Club for a long time, this renewal of past relationships creates a tremendous amount of excitement in everything that you do in the coming months.

I had 3 of my Team Coaches and 1 Builder Intern present there also. To meet several of them for a first time and work with them and dine with them was very, very rewarding for me.

The new and exciting things that Dick Burke reviewed with us will truly make this year an interesting and also an exciting year. As he has always says: It Just Keeps Getting Better All The Time. And Team Work Makes it Happen !

I feel so enlightened and I am so very happy I attended this year's National Convention. I strongly urge anyone who has an opportunity to attend any Online Pal talk Training Conferences, any other Conference that may be coming up in your area or next years Convention to prepare your self mentally to attend as many as you can.

The knowledge and enthusiasm that you will pick up from this experience will not only take you a long way in building your business but it will also help your downline New VIPs also develop and grow a lot stronger. See you all soon on Pal Talk.

Warmest Regards,
Roland Dufault
Arizona, USA
Marketing Director

If you've never attended a conference you should because it really does bring a lot of the training to light for you. What I learned at the conference, I may have never known, because I may have never thought to ask the question. Mr Burke and his staff are very knowledgeable answering questions about the Club and it's future and how financially sound your future could be with the Club. Great Conference looking forward to the next one.

Jennie Taylor
Texas, USA
Strategist Team Coach

An extraordinary weekend filled with information, updates, training, new powerful tools and in addition, there was plenty of fun and the joy of making new friends.

John and Kate Fagalde
Florida, USA
Strategist Team Coach

I have been in the DHS Club for several years now. I have gone to every training within a thousand miles since I began ( one exception of Lake City, my son got married in NY State).

I can tell you quite simply that where the DHS Club is now headed is nothing short of spectacular and ground breaking!

I am so excited that I can hardly contain myself long enough to read all the notes and new training that has just come out.

Remember now I have been in a long time and I simply am so excited that I believe this is the greatest opportunity on the Planet, Period!

I want to thank Dick Burke, the staff and the webmaster for all the work that has gone into this and making us ( The DHS Club) the envy of the world!

Thanks one and all! This is simply the greatest and the best is still to come.

Doug Woodward
Florida, USA
Trainer Team Coach

The excitement and anticipation I felt in the days ahead of the August 2005, DHS convention could hardly be contained. Looking forward to sharing time with old friends and making new friends; having fun and sharing ideas; growing stronger bonds and knowing that there is always someone to listen and care. Listening and being trained by those who have forged ahead to give us the organization that by following the training provided to all of us at a very affordable price will definitely build that “Yellow Brick Road”; brick by brick to lead to the goals and dreams we have for our business, was definitely fulfilled in the short time we had together. The training and new materials that are now available to all VIP’s is far more valuable than the small amount of time and money we invested in the trip. This business is designed to meet the desires of your heart but it provides so much more than the satisfaction of having a successful business, and it definitely can be done by anyone who is willing to invest a small amount of money and time and that is willing to follow the training that is very simply laid out to follow one step at a time.

All of this was enhanced when on arrival back at home, I asked Jim to share with me how he truly felt about the convention: He said, “I found the people from CEO Dick Burke his wife Pat, our Personal Trainer Mark South, the staff, the top producers, and all others to be warm, caring people, who were not only interested in us personally but they truly cared about our success in the business. I was truly impressed by the sincerity of these people who were so genuine; it was not about them but about anyone and everyone that they could assist and help to reach their top goals. I was impressed by the amount of information, training and sharing of ideas that was so freely given, and yet there was fun and time to just relax and enjoy each other. I can tell you that I never saw or felt this in Corporate America nor in other business ventures! I left with the feeling that I definitely want to be a part of this year after year!”

Our main plan and goal is to see how many we can assist and help to attain their goals, we want to give back to others what has so freely been given to us!

Pat and Jim Shelar
North Carolina, USA
Builder Team Coach

This is my second Convention to attend and I can only say that in doing this I have done the most important thing for my business. It just brings everything into focus and rejuvenates my resolve to make a success of myself and my team. The instruction was great. Mr. Burke's goals for the Club this coming year are so exciting. Being able to meet and listen to those who have been more successful than I this year is invaluable. Then I got to meet and touch base with my upline team and I can't wait to get back to work with them!

Cynthia Walker
Kansas, USA
Builder Intern

I'd like to take thank Dick Burke & the staff for an outstanding training this year. I have never been one to enjoy most network marketing conventions that are a lot of hype with little meat. This was all meat, no hype.

The new information on ClubBucks, new marketing initiatives, new websites, and Dick's long range goals for the future of this program and company, leave me little room for doubt about anything this company has to offer or it's long range goals for the future.

The folks I met, old and new there, just make the DHS Club even more special. There are no false smiles, or forced friendships. You can just feel the genuine feelings they have for each other, the company, and it's CEO and staff.

I've gone home with a much higher and stronger knowledge that we are the ONLY business out there like this. No one can match us or touch us. We are so unique in what we can offer consumers, merchants, non profits, and VIPs, to build, and profit with.

I have always been a great believer of this company, from the very beginning. Yet, to see this start to unfold, as promised, is just incredible.

Dick, thank you for your vision, your work ethics, and your great fortitude, in the past, and in our future. We are really going places and I'm proud to be a part of that.

The DHS Club has a great foundation of ideas, concepts, and work ethics, from our CEO, to our VIPs and most importantly from the staff, who are not just employees, but family.

I'm so looking forward to the year's ahead. Thanks for everything. It was a terrific convention and something well worth attending.

Deb Corsetti
New Hampshire, USA
Trainer Team Coach

My first experience in The Orlando Convention was really an eye opener for me because I had many chances to interact with some of the really successful people that have made this system work for them.
I got to meet my Executive Director Robbie Bracco and got the chance to really sit down and talk about anything that would help me improve my chances of succeeding in this program and oh by the way Robbie and Phil her husband are one of the nicest people you could ever meet. Our main theme in the whole weekend was to FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD which means follow the 10 step program to the letter.

Another part of our weekend was learning about our new Marketing Programs for now and the future and I personally believe our program will increase 3 million to 20 million in a very short period of time.

Karen and I also got the opportunity to go to EPCOT AND MGM while we were there since it has been almost 23 years since we had a chance to see Disney.

After the convention was over we had a chance to use some of our new learned knowledge and we were able to give our website to couple of people while we were in Florida and maybe very promising, let you know about that later.

Karen and I can't wait until our next convention so we can share again and we will see everyone on stage next year that we promised.

David and Karen Hosford
Maryland, USA
Builder Team Coach

In this year's Convention one of the things I really liked was seeing Dick at work, and practically seeing him do what he talks about all year. Sometimes we may think we understand what someone is talking about and feel that is what we are doing too, but seeing it has surely helped me make quite a few extra clicks. And many more clicks yet to come.

There is soooo much to learn and it's easy to get lost in the zillion possibilities we get presented with, but I know that my goal will only come closer if I just keep focused on the very next step I personally have to take, and make sure I be the best I can be, on the previous steps.

I'm blessed to be sharing the road with a group of wonderful and very special people in an exceptional organization and thank each and every one of you.

Yvonne Verwimp
Netherlands
Strategist Team Coach

Hello all, Just want to tell you a little about our convention. I attended the convention in Tampa last year and was impressed very much and thought I needed no more, for I had received more than was needed. Then in March the next year I was fortunate enough to make the trip to Belgium where I witnessed some of the greatest motivation that could be had, This was proven by the actions of all the upgrades done in the following months from those over there. Then it came time for the convention in Orlando, 2005. I said to myself you can go to renew your friendship with all your old friends from past year's for you have heard it all. Boy was I in for a big surprise. Yes, I was and I was lucky enough to get most of it on tape which I go back and listen to different parts again and again. I just wish that all members could have attended and heard first hand all that was presented to all for the first time. I am not a person that gets excited very much but I was at this convention and I hope I am able to attend the next one where ever it may be. I want to thank Dick for the talking and prayers said for me. God Bless you all.

See you next year, I hope,

Ray Campbell
North Carolina, USA
Builder Team Coach

Between the smiles, the friendship and the true connections of all who attended, there was training, announcements of new advantages for our business building system and the motivation that only a leader like Dick Burke can provide. If you weren't there, there are no words that can describe the feelings experienced by those who were, or the real sense of fun we have about building our businesses together. All who were there felt like a TEAM.

Having attended all the conventions we've held so far myself, this was truly the best (and I thought we couldn't top last year!). My thanks to all who attended for making it a memorable event for me. For those on my team, I am delighted to be among such winners. For those who came halfway around the world, I hope you got as much out of this convention as we did because you were there. And, of course, thanks to Dick & Pat Burke, the great DHS Club staff and all the Executive Directors for making THIS convention the standard to which we should aspire every year. You have to be there to know the feeling!

Harold Hill
Tennessee, USA
Marketing Director

I had a wonderful time and learned so much! Dick Burke NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME!
He really is to me what Bob Barker is to the people on the Price Is Right!

Thanks for all the new tools.
I also want to thank Mark South for his training with PPC. Hearing it and seeing it at the same time was the best.

The entertainment was fun and refreshing, and now we have 2 animated entertainers to get us laughing. Harold Hill and Gino Descamps. LOL. It was so great to get together with my friends that I have made from all over the world.

The convention was a real activator for me. Thanks to all of you at HQ for making this possible for us!

Beverly Kennedy
Tennessee, USA
Strategist Team Coach

WOW! We received inspiration and information by the bucketfuls. We also were able to meet more of our DHS Family from across the ocean. It was just a great meeting. We were able to hear others stories of how they started and how they got to where they are now, plus we learned what is expected of us as VIP's and how TO FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD!

We were a bit disappointed that there weren't more people in attendance. But we look at it this way, "You snooze, YOU LOSE!" The new system is really awesome and will be a great asset for those that utilize it. The Convention gave us a better understanding of the new system and how it works and we're ready to start "Movin' on UP!" Hope to see EVERY VIP at the Convention next year! You really don't know what you are missing out on by not attending.

Jackie and Gene Bell
Arizona, USA
Trainee III

How do you convince a person that you are going to travel from Europe to Florida USA and all its attractions purely for business? How do you explain that you will spend the time in a conference room for 2 days solid sharing ideas, meeting old friends and taking endless notes. Of course I must be mad, but what do they know?

On the weekly PalTalk you will see names regularly on the side panel, occasionally you will hear them speak. But, when you get a chance to physically meet them, then that is something else. The handshakes the hugs, the kisses, a true fellowship of like minded people.

If you have been to company seminars then you will understand what I mean when I say that usually a few days afterwards you've forgotten most of it and probably have little or no intention of implementing what seemed to be good ideas. Well, this is different, it's another kind of motivation. On my return I have been busy. I have audited my entire network's personal webpages. I think I have just about mastered Search Engine Marketing the proof of that is still to come. Plus I welcomed another VIP into my second line.

I am reminded of Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of 2001 Space Odyssey. Where David Bowman the astronaut announces "My God! I can see the Stars - something wonderful is going to happen".

Thank you all for such a great weekend together, Thank you to Betty Hicks and Bill Meriwether for looking after me so well. Most of all, thank you to all who laughed at my jokes.

Frank Finch
Hampshire, GB
Marketing Director

This year's Convention was sensational, beyond words and special in different ways and an extra for me was that I was able to combine the Convention with my Executive Directors trip.
For the second time I had the privilege to be a part of a great DHS Cub Team that will knocks socks of the next coming years. Mr. and Mrs. Burke, The staff, The Executive Directors and everyone that attended this meeting is in for one special ride.

The spirit, The Training, The motivation, The fun, The food, The camaraderie, it is to much to comprehend it all at once.
Being home for a few days now I still can not put it all together, I AM SO EXCITED !!

Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Burke for your Time and devotion at Palm island, we enjoyed it sooooo much.
Thank you Dick for being my honest business partner, you have somebody extra in the foxhole.
Thank you Staff, you are all so great and special in your own special skills, thanks for all you do for us.

Thank you Mark, Robbie, Phil and Harold for accepting me as your friend in Business.

Thanks to the Dutch team for joining me from the other side of the world and thanks to every and each one of you at the Convention, you are all special people. This is indeed A GREAT TEAM !!

We will follow the yellow brick road all the way !!

Warm regards,
Kristien and Gino Descamps
Belgium
Marketing Director

This years convention was AMAZING!!!! Dick Burke is just brilliant and he just keeps blowing me away with all the new things that are coming down the pike. I learned so much and met so many great people. Thank you to all the DHS Club Staff Lisa, Linda, Cindy, Will, Bill and Mark. If you didn't make it to this convention start saving now so you can attend the 2006 convention you will not regret it.

Cynthia Barbour
Massachusetts, USA
Marketing Director

This was such an awesome convention! The camaraderie was so enjoyable! Not to mention all the hugs! The caring, quality people that make up our Club is very hard to put into words! They are the BEST!

Each convention is an opportunity to develop relationships with people you have met or people you are just meeting for the first time. So many people were so helpful to share what is working for them to grow their business. Each person's story of personal growth was unique and encouraging.

For the first time I was able to finally grasp what Dick Burke means by "begin with the end in view" and what a huge difference that makes! I plan on coming to next's years convention as an Executive Director.

The Training was excellent! Will Burke's training on search engine advertising was just what I needed and so helpful to a very visual, hands on learner! It was such an encouragement to me. Mark South's training on finding Marketplace Merchants was also excellent. I have had loads of fun since I got back getting ready for this new tool to be fully functional.

It was also very exciting hear about the growth of each person's group who had attended the convention last year, doubling, tripling and more! Next year we will have a whole new group of Executive Directors attending!

Linda Sisson did a terrific job on the door prizes and even though I have never been chosen, it is still so much fun and something I look forward to each year.

The highlight for me was receiving a special gift from the Best Executive Director ever, Robbie Bracco!

For those who missed this convention put it on your planner for next year. You not only missed out on value you missed out on a lot of fun as well! Each person's story was an encouragement. Each person doing the training's did such a Great Job.

Lee Marrow
California, USA
Marketing Director

I enjoyed this convention so much! We received some very valuable information and tools to use for our business. Dick Burke is a wonderful teacher and makes learning so easy and fun. I enjoyed the fun and fellowship we all had at the convention. I always say that the best part of the convention is Sunday morning's worship service. We need to take God everywhere we go with us and Dick and his wife Pattie definitely do that. They are a wonderful example how Christians should be. May God bless them in all they do!

Scott and Julia C. Cunningham
Arkansas, USA
Trainer Team Coach

What a fabulous experience this Convention has been! It was great to be able to meet and share with other VIPs. I now have many new friends from all over the country and the world, and have been able to get to know better the friends I made at last year's Convention. It makes it special to be able to go to Paltalk sessions now, and to recognize the names of people I already know, it is almost like having them right there with me to talk to. The trading of experiences that was part of the bonding process we all went through at Convention has already started to help me in my business, and on the personal level. Several other VIPs told me that they picked up little ideas from our conversations that will help them in their businesses as well. And that doesn't even count the fabulous information that was announced in the sessions! The material given there is already making me more productive, and helping others on my team as well.

What a wonderful experience it was to have people that are succeeding in our business being brought up for recognition and to share some of their stories with the audience. Truly inspirational, and energizing! I am all charged up now, ready to go out with even greater enthusiasm than I already had. As it says right on the first page of the first lesson in Trainee 1, going to Convention is one of the best ways to progress in your DHS business. Just like it says, I am leaving energized, motivated, and enlightened. It is hard to imagine how anything could be as helpful to one's business as attending one of these Conventions, I plan to go every year!

Congratulations and many thanks to Dick and all the HQ staff that planned this event, and to all who attended. I hope that everyone got as much from this as I did, what a great experience! I am pumped up and ready to proceed down that Yellow Brick Road for sure now, and now I have lots of friends coming along with me, making it even better. This has been the best proof of the phrase that we all see so frequently: Together Everyone Achieves More! GO, TEAM!! See you in 2006!!

As soon as the dates and location are announced, I'm ordering my ticket and booking my travel to get there. Lisa, please pencil me in now for 2006!

Gary Glackin
California, USA
Strategist Team Coach

This year was probably the best Convention yet, not necessarily in size or location but in the value of the training and new friendships. When you have such great Execs like Harold, Robbie, and Gino in your downline, and a great sponsor in Mr. Burke, people automatically assume you "know it all"... But I can assure you that is not always the case. I picked up some great tips and tricks of the trade (as I do each year)! It was the ultimate caring family atmosphere with everyone willing to share their knowledge.

I had an enjoyable time socially as well! It has been a while since I had the chance to really get to meet and know people the way I now do, From Executive Director meetings and meals to the Breakfast of Champions (thanks for having me), Lunch with my adopted orphans and last but not least Kris Van der Loo's pool side Bar and "grilling". But as we say, "What happens pool side stays pool side" :-)

I hope you will join us next year as we can gain new friends and memories, that will last a life time!!!
Unless you're "Kieken" :-)

Mark South
Florida, USA
Marketing Director / DHS Club HQ

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