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Nostalgia - Remember "This Dumb Little Ad?" by Cathy Bryant
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Watch out - if you do, you're
showing your "Internet Age!"
I am, of course, referring to the now infamous "Cookie Cutter"
marketing program which was all over the internet when I first began
exploring the online business world (circa mid-1999).
If you have no idea what I'm referring to, then you can consider
yourself a relative newbie to the internet. I bring up Cookie
Cutter as an example of how things can change so dramatically online
in such a relatively short period of time.
No kidding - if you were at all involved in the business opportunity
area of the internet at that time, you will definitely remember
those "cc-pages" - they were EVERYWHERE!
What I remember most vividly about Cookie Cutter was the ubiquitous
ad headline that inevitably heralded an invitation to investigate
this program.
"THIS DUMB LITTLE AD Can Put $200 in cash in your mailbox...
EVERYDAY!"
It was followed by an ad that almost always read exactly the same
way -
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This little cookie cutter spits out $20 checks...
It's a 3-part automated system, consisting of a KILLER classified
ad, a powerful one page sales letter delivered by autoresponder,
and a QUALITY product, delivered to your customer by the company.
You can set up today...and actually be getting checks mailed to
you tomorrow.
For complete details, send a blank email to:
mailto: xxx@someautoresponder.com or visit my web site:
http://www.cc-pages/vips/MembersName/index.htm
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It was a somewhat "misleading" ad in the sense that what you learned
only AFTER you sent in your $20 was that in order to implement the
system you needed to purchase
additional items.
Those who ere fortunate enough to get in early no doubt made some
money with the program - but no one made MORE money than its
originator, Gary White.
When I decided to write this article, I did some research on Cookie
Cutter, and what I discovered was intriguing.
For example, I did a Google search on the term "Cookie Cutter" and I
had to go to Page 4 before I found any reference to it whatsoever.
It was actually a link to a disclaimer put on the "Beginner's
Central" website that was used in Cookie Cutter's Bootcamp product.
http://www.northernwebs.com/bc/
Another search on "Gary White" found nothing to reference the
once-famous originator of the Cookie Cutter program in the first ten
pages. I chose not to go any further.
But then I did a search on "This Dumb Little Ad" - THAT got some
results. Never underestimate the power of a unique headline.
Naturally that led me to many pages which were no longer active.
This prompted me to do a WHOIS search on the domain name of the
duplicated pages that were used in the program.
Many of you will be interested in learning that the domain name cc-pages.com
expired on March 5 of this year. Looks like Gary White is out of
business. I do recall that he tried to parlay his success with
Cookie Cutter into a similar program, but apparently he was
unsuccessful.
By that time, most everyone had caught on.
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