Please watch this short video for an introduction to how Deadline Funnel works!

The goal of this article is to give you a basic understanding of how setting up your first Deadline Funnel Campaign works. We’ve broken this up into 5 easy steps.

Follow these 5 steps and you’ll get your first Deadline Funnel Campaign up and running in no time.

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1. Create your campaign
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2. Set up your trigger
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3. Integrate your pages with the timer
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4. Add your email links and email timers to your emails
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5. Test your funnel
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Before we jump into the steps, I want to introduce you to our Quick Start Guide:

This is a handy tool we created for easy reference when you're setting up your campaign. Which tasks are included in your Quick Start Guide (QSG) depends on a few factors. Whether it’s a Fixed Date or Evergreen/Hybrid, what trigger you chose, etc.

Under each task there is always a "need help?" and a Setup button. The Help button will take you to our article on how to integrate with your specific platform(s), and the Setup button will take you to the section of the admin where the actual setup happens. You can find your Quick Start Guide at the top of the left-hand menu under Edit Your Campaign.

I’ll be referencing the Quick Start Guide several times through-out this guide, so keep that in mind. :)

You can find our full guide on How to Create Your Campaign here

The purpose of the trigger is to establish a starting point for each subscriber’s unique deadline, so this part only applies if you are setting up an Evergreen or Hybrid deadline. There’s no tracking involved in a Fixed Date deadline, as the deadline is the same for everyone based on a fixed calendar date, so if you’re setting up a Fixed Date deadline, you can skip this part.

If you navigate to your Quick Start Guide in the Deadline Funnel Admin, you should see something like this:

You can see in this example that we chose an API Integration.

If you click on the API Integration box, you’ll see a "need help?" link at the bottom. Click on this link to go to our article on how to set up the API Integration with your specific Email Provider, and click the Setup button to be taken to the API Integrations tab.

If you select an email provider that requires our Zapier integration, you will see a box for Zapier Form Integration instead, or a Page Trigger will just have Update Webpages and Test.

Note: If you're going to be integrating your deadline with your emails, then API or Zapier are going to be the best triggers to use. If your deadline is just page-based, a Page visit blueprint with a page-visit trigger is fine.

How you add the timer to your page(s) varies depending on the platform you’re using.

Navigate to the Update Webpages box in the Quick Start Guide and click "need help?" to go to our article on how to add your Deadline Funnel timer to the specific platform that you’re using.

When this step is complete, you should be able to see the Deadline Funnel timer on your special offer page. If you're using a Page trigger, then you're all set! You can skip forward to Testing your funnel.

Note: You can have multiple pages connected to one deadline. You can see and edit each page that's connected in Edit Campaign > Pages, as well as click Add New Page to add a second, third, fourth, etc:

If you're using the deadline in an email sequence, you’ll need to integrate the deadline with your emails next. There are two pieces to this puzzle:

Email Links - Each Page in your campaign has a corresponding Email Link under the Emails tab. These links are used for tracking subscribers across multiple devices, and they're a key component in using the deadline with your emails. Check out our full article on how to use Email Links here.

Email Timers - You can add these to the emails that you’ll be sending to your subscribers. This feature is optional. Email timers make sure your prospects have a visual reminder of the deadline in their emails, as well as on the page. To find out how to add these to your specific Email Provider, simply click "need help?" below this section in the Quick Start Guide:

Testing your funnel is a very important step. This article walks you through how to test your funnel:

How to Test Your Deadline Funnel Campaign

You can also find links to these in your Quick Start Guide under the Test box.

If at any point during this setup process you find that you need a little extra help, just reach out in our live chatbox: