Well it's been a year, and there's so much to tell! Dierks Bentley Congress - the website - launched one year ago today, February 1, 2009! Special shout out to my brother, Tony Hayden, who had the forethought to buy the domain name dbcongress.com for me for Christmas! And then went on to actually design the original site!
Take a trip down memory lane and re-visit some of the
first blogs. And
here. Wow! We started DB Congress on dierks.com in Febraury 2007 with just a handful of fan clubbers. DBC.com launched 2 years later with 374 members, and now we're 574 representatives strong and growing from all over the world and every U.S. state except Alaska!
We've come a long way, yet who we wanna be still seems so far away. But I know we're gonna get there someday! Can't you just hear that sweet fiddle right now?
Special thanks to Stephanie, Amanda, and Carrie who help me tremendously in supporting the site daily, and Alicia, David, Nid, Mona, Molly and Tara for all their promotional support with dierksfans.com, decals, T-shirts, dog tags and DB Bracelets. Thanks to all the DBC reps who send in their photos and concert reviews. It all helps to make dbcongress.com the most comprehensive site on the net for everything Dierks!
Keep coming back daily over the next few weeks and look for some refreshing changes, new contests and surveys, and of course, the most current news on our president, Dierks Bentley!
A week ago it was the first anniversary of DBCongress.com and we used Twitter to draw Dierks Bentley's attention to it, by asking him to give us a statement on this happy occasion (We also included a link to the article about it on the DBCongress.com blog). Last night, we are happy to report, he replied to us with a direct message and this is what he said:
