Features

 

We’re happy to bring you a new feature that will make it easier than ever to test your Deadline Funnel campaigns.

It’s called Preview Mode.

Here’s a short video of how it works and how it makes building your funnels even easier.

Here’s how Deadline Funnel Preview Mode will make your life easier:

Work on your pages without being redirected:

Have you ever wanted to edit a page in your evergreen funnel but when you go to take a look at your changes Deadline Funnel redirects you because your deadline expired?

Problem solved.

With Preview Mode you’ll stay on the page.

See details about how your Deadline Funnel is set up:

At the bottom of the page you’ll see details about your Deadline Funnel campaign, including tracking information. You can even reset your tracking without leaving the page.

Make it easier for your team members to work on your pages:

If you have team members working on your pages, you simply add their IP addresses to the Preview Mode dialog and they can work on your pages without being redirected.

You can activate Preview Mode on a live Deadline Funnel campaign without it affecting prospects.

Preview Mode only shows for the people you choose.

Check out our guide on how to use Preview Mode here

 

Let us know what you think of this new feature in the comments below!

 

It’s been a busy and exciting time here at Deadline Funnel. After months of hard work, we’re excited to announce several new features that we hope you’re going to really like.

New Deadline Funnel Interface:

If you’ve logged in recently, this update is not news to you. We totally re-designed our admin and the reaction has been awesome. When you log in you immediately see the new look:

The changes are more than cosmetic, the new user interface makes it faster and easier than ever to create your Deadline Funnel campaigns. Watch our intro video here:

Early feedback:

New Hybrid Deadline Feature:

This new deadline type is perfect for when you want your deadline to be on a set day of each regardless of when people enter your funnel. Check out the video here:

Read more about all of the deadline types here: https://documentation.deadlinefunnel.com/article/528-how-to-choose-a-campaign-type

Floating Bar Improvements:

We’ve made some significant changes to the floating bar that are what our clients asked for and more. You can now adjust the size to suit your needs and also choose to include or exclude the countdown timer, text, and call-to-action button. All of these new features still include our mobile-responsive features, so you can feel confident using them on mobile. Check out that video here:

If you’re using the Deadline Funnel WordPress plugin, be sure to download and install the most recent version of our plugin to take advantage of these floating bar improvements. You can find the plugin under My Account >> Code Snippets >> WordPress.

New Integration with ManyChat:

Last but not least, this new integration can be a real game-changer. In this short video you’ll start to see the potential of using ManyChat to boost your sales further with Facebook and an automated Deadline from Deadline Funnel:

You can find more information about our integration with ManyChat here: https://documentation.deadlinefunnel.com/article/525-how-to-integrate-deadline-funnel-with-manychat

That’s it for now, but know that we are working behind the scenes on even more new features and improvements. If you have any feedback or questions we’d love to hear from you in the comments below.

Over the past month we’ve released several new updates to Deadline Funnel that we’re very excited to tell you about.

#1: Improved integration with Drip

Drip recently added the ability to put an HTTP Post action a sequence as a step.

Prior to Drip’s update our integration relied on webhooks that sent a lot of extra data to Deadline Funnel that wasn’t needed and required extra steps on your part.

The new method of integration with Drip is much simpler.

Here’s a link to our documentation

And if you have an existing Drip integration you’ll be happy to know that we will continue to support this legacy API integration.

But going forward you should use the new Drip integration method.

We’ve also integrated with several lead generation platforms.

#2 & #3: Optimonk and OptinMonster Integrations

Optimonk and OptinMonster are both software platforms for quickly creating optin forms that grab attention and grow your list.

Here’s a link to our documentation on integrating Deadline Funnel and Optimonk

Here’s a link to our documentation on integrating Deadline Funnel and OptinMonster

We’ve also added two email software platforms to our list of integrations.

#4: HubSpot Integration

HubSpot provides tools for social media marketing, content management, web analytics, landing pages and search engine optimization.

HubSpot has seen tremendous growth since it was founded in 2006.

Click here to see our integration article on HubSpot

#5: KlickTipp Integration

KlickTipp is an email automation platform that’s very popular in Germany.

Click here to see our integration article on Klick-Tipp

#6: Klaviyo Documentation for Email Countdown Timer

If you use Klavivo then you’ll be happy to know that you can easily add animated countdown timers from Deadline Funnel in your emails.

Here’s the documentation on how it works

#7: Updated ActiveCampaign Marketplace Automation

If you use ActiveCampaign for your email marketing you can easily add a prebuilt funnel that we created for you.

Just a few clicks and it’s added to your account.

This update includes:

• Improved timing steps to properly synchronize Deadline Funnel and your emails
• Emails are easier than ever to edit because the new ones use the visual editor instead of hard coded HTML
• Includes a goal that takes subscribers out of the automation automatically when they buy
• And we added notes to key steps so you know what you need to change when you’re setting it up

Check out the updated ActiveCampaign Marketplace Automation

We hope you love these new updates and we’re working behind the scenes on several new updates we’re excited to share with you soon.

We’re happy to announce some new countdown styles!

You can see the new designs in the Appearance tab of your Deadline Funnel account.

Here’s are a few examples of embedding the new timers on a page 🙂

Squares:

Circles:

Rectangle:

 

We just released a new feature for Deadline Funnel that makes it easier than ever to control the different pages in your funnel and create expiring links for those pages.

Check out the video here:

Before this update, there was a way to set up extra URL’s for Deadline Funnel but we kept hearing that it was slightly confusing how to use it.

So now, right from the Use It area, you can see exactly what will happen before and after the deadline for each funnel step in your funnel.

And what this means for you is that if you want to have countdowns that redirect to different AFTER urls… it’s super simple to do now.

If you have any feedback or questions we’d love to hear from you in the comments below. 🙂

The Deadline Funnel team is excited to announce a major improvement we think you’re going to love.

We’ve added a LOT more flexibility to the animated email countdowns in Deadline Funnel.

1- With the new color picker you can now use any color for your email countdown images

2- The labels (Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds) will match the color of the numbers

3- Want to just show the numbers in your email countdown image? Now you can with one click.

4- We’ve added several new fonts

Check out the video above and then jump in and give it a try.

We’d love to hear your feedback.

PS – Subscribe to our YouTube channel and be automatically notified whenever we add a new video.

 

Today we’re happy to announce that you can now put countdowns on your webpages using BOTH inline countdown timers AND floating bars at the same time.

Checkout the video below and see how simple it is:

The process is really just a simple matter of creating two Funnel Steps in the Deadline Funnel admin:

– one Funnel Step set as Inline Countdown

– one Funnel Step set as Floating Bar

And when both of those steps are for the same URL, both types of countdowns will show on your page.

We are working behind the scenes on more improvements to the admin and the functionality of Deadline Funnel.

But it’s also great to hear all the feedback that’s come in about the changes we’ve made in 2016.

For example:

We’re looking forward to sharing these new features very soon!

As always, we’re working to make it as easy as possible to create campaigns in Deadline Funnel. Today, we released some updates to the Deadline Funnel admin that help make it easier to update and configure your campaign after it’s first created.

Let’s take a look at some of the biggest updates:

1. Inline countdown, floating bar, and email timer styles are all in one place

To update your styles for the inline countdown, floating bar, or email timer, go to Use It >> Appearance, and then select either Inline Countdown, Floating Bar, or Email Timer.

2. All settings for your Deadline Funnel campaign are now in the Use It area

To update settings like the length of your deadline, before and after URLs, timezone, and more… just click on Use It and then Settings.

3. Additional campaign URLs can now be updated in the Use It area

To add additional URLs (for expiring links), go to Use It >> Advanced Options >> URLs.

Let us know if you have any questions, comments, or feedback! 🙂

This morning we launched a very significant update to our admin that changes the way you add Deadline Funnel to your marketing funnels! Huge kudos to our team for getting us to this point – lots of development, usability testing, and bug-fixes happening behind the scenes over the last few weeks. 🙂

If you already have Deadline Funnel campaign(s) created in your account, your existing campaigns will definitely continue working.

Any and all pages where you have countdown code or optin integration code or invisible tracking code… those will all continue to work.

Your emails with countdown timers, deadlinetext and couponcode custom fields, and API integrations will also continue to work.

One of the biggest changes is that instead of embedding multiple codes for each campaign, and different codes for inline countdown, floating bar, optin form, etc – we’ve introduced a new universal code for your account.

So moving forward, you’ll only need to embed one code on your pages, and then in Deadline Funnel specify what you want to happen on each of your URLs.

When you’re ready to edit your existing campaigns, that’s when you’ll need to upgrade to the new universal code.

Here’s a video overview of the changes:

Instructions below – and if you have any questions please send us an email at help[at]deadlinefunnel.com. We’re working to make Deadline Funnel as easy as possible to use and would love to hear your feedback!

How to Migrate to the Deadline Funnel Universal Code

1. Click on Tracking Code in the left navigation, and replace any existing Deadline Funnel code you have on your pages with this universal tracking code. It’s the same code across your entire account… so it’s going to be the same regardless of which campaign you’re working on.

2. Click on Use It in the left navigation (if you haven’t created a new campaign yet go to Countdowns >> Add New to create one first)

3. Under the first tab, Funnel Steps, add each URL where you want to use Deadline Funnel. Right next to the URL field is an option to select the type of deadline you want to show on the page. You can choose from Inline Countdown, Floating Bar, Optin Form, Hidden Image Trigger, Promo Code Redemption, and Sales Tracking.

Once you’ve completed the steps above, please test your funnel by going to each of the URLs you added under Funnel Steps and verify that everything’s working as you expected.

The other tabs across the top of the Use It area allow you to easily integrate Deadline Funnel with your emails, customize the webpage countdown appearance, customize the floating bar style, update general settings, and test the tracking for your Deadline Funnel campaigns.

Questions You Might Have About Your Existing Deadline Funnel Campaigns:

1) “Do I have to change anything in my existing funnel?”

No.

Any and all pages where you have the Deadline Funnel code will still work as always.

Countdowns, Floating Bars, Optin Form integrations, Pixels, they work the same today as they did yesterday and so there’s nothing you need to change.

Next question…

2) “OMG – I need something changed NOW and I am in the middle of a promotion. What can I do?”

In the short term what we can do is help you if you need changes made but you can’t change to the new code.

Just send us a support ticket from the admin and we’ll help you out.

3) “Why did you make this change?”

Simply to make Deadline Funnel easier to use.

We listened to clients like you – many of whom said they love the power of Deadline Funnel – but the process of getting it setup wasn’t as intuitive as they would have liked.

So we started working with a handful of clients to get their feedback.

And from those meetings we discovered that we could streamline the workflow, simplify the admin, and give you just ONE code that you can use in any of your pages.

Please give us your feedback: Good, bad or otherwise. We want to hear it all.

After weeks of doing usability testing with clients we’re excited to announce that we’re just a few days away from launching the new admin.

Check out this sneak peek video here:

Here are some highlights of what makes this new admin and workflow MUCH easier:

1) Just ONE embed code per account

Which means you no longer need to install different codes for your countdown code, different ones for your optin forms, etc.

Just one code that you install on any page that’s in your funnel.

And then from the Deadline Funnel admin you can control what happens on each page.

2) Streamlined workflow

We’ve worked with a handful of clients to dramatically simplify and streamline the process of getting Deadline Funnel up and running on your site.

To accomplish this we looked at every step of our existing process and asked “can we remove this?”

We also looked at where most of our support tickets came from and focused on how we can make it easier and more obvious how to integrate Deadline Funnel into your landing pages, sales pages, order pages, and emails.

3) More complete floating bar preview

Deadline Funnel lets you use the web page countdown either as an inline countdown or as a floating bar.

If you use the floating bar option you’ll see a working example of the floating bar… as you build and edit it.

Which means you won’t have to change tabs or windows to see how your floating bar actually looks.

There’s a lot more we’ve built into this new admin but those are some of the big updates.

So you might be wondering:

Question: “How will this affect my existing Deadline Funnel campaigns?”

We’ve done extensive testing to make sure that your existing campaigns will work exactly as they do now.

You don’t need to change anything or do anything when the new admin rolls out.

However, you do need to know that if you are going to edit an existing campaign, you will need to add the new Deadline Funnel code to your pages in order to see those changes go live.

Question: “When will this go live?”

We are expecting sometime around Tuesday the 12th of July.

We get some of our best ideas for new features from our current clients and our latest feature is no different. Our clients have been asking for an option that redirects a site visitor to the optin page (or beginning of their sales funnel) if Deadline Funnel finds no tracking when they visit ‘any’ page in the funnel. We call this feature, the Single Point of Entry.

Why You Need a Single Point of Entry:

What if someone who is already in your funnel shares a page with someone who is not? If that happens, the 2nd prospect lands on Page 2 of your funnel without any context or follow-up. In fact, since this new person isn’t being tracked and isn’t actually going through your funnel, you don’t have them on your list and your conversions will likely suffer.

You thoughtfully created your funnel to move your prospects from the initial opt-in to the offer. You created a specific sequence and optimized the order of the steps for conversion, so ideally your prospects will follow that set path. You don’t want anyone to jump into the middle of the process, do you? That would be like entering in the middle of the latest Star Wars movie and wondering what all the hype was about.

It’s easy to see why you as a marketer don’t want people to skip around in the funnel, but it’s actually not the right thing for your prospect either. They won’t understand the context of what they are seeing on Page 2 and as a result, they may misunderstand your offer. This could have a couple of negative effects:

1. They may really want what you are offering but they can’t tell from that one isolated page.
2. Since they are not on your list and receiving your follow-up, they may have no idea what to do next in the process and won’t get the solution to their problem.

How Single Point of Entry Works:

Adding the new Single Point of Entry code to your page provides a number of benefits:

• No matter what page in your funnel your prospect lands on, they will be re-directed to the beginning of your funnel, i.e., your optin page. (In our movie analogy, your prospect would be sent to a different theater in which the Star Wars movie was just getting ready to begin.)
• Once the prospect has opted in, Deadline Funnel will begin tracking them, enabling you to personalize your interaction with them.
• In addition to the name and email address, Deadline Funnel will add the date that your prospect was added to your sales funnel into your email servicer provider. You can use this date in future communication with them to ensure that they don’t miss any awesome bonuses or your great offer.

Deadline Funnel Makes Single Point of Entry Easy:

Deadline Funnel provides next-level marketing control and confidence that your funnel will not ‘break’, negatively affecting your conversions.

Current Deadline Funnel clients can learn more about the Single Point of Entry feature in our knowledgebase.

It is very simple to change any existing Deadline Funnel campaign or create a new one and add the necessary code to redirect prospects to your optin page whenever Deadline Funnel doesn’t detect any tracking. This ensure that your prospects go through your sequence in the right order, being exposed to all the right information, at the right time.

 

You want people to share your offer/sales page with their networks, right?

Yes… but. People sharing your sales page with their friends can actually hurt your conversions and sales if every time they share your page, the countdown timer resets. You could end up with a lot of potential customers with a lot of different deadlines. It’s hard to create a sense of urgency with multiple moving deadlines.

How can a countdown timer hurt conversion?

Word-of-mouth, referrals, and other forms of social proof are great ways to get your offer in front of more people than you likely could on your own. In addition, if a friend shares an offer, it carries with it a built-in recommendation or endorsement for the offer.

Countdown timers are great for giving your prospects a reason to buy right now and limiting the time your offer is available. However, if you aren’t using Deadline Funnel, a countdown timer might actually hurt your sales and conversions.

A deadline should be a real deadline. It feels dishonest and sneaky to have the 5-day limited time bonus start over and over every time the offer is shared. But you can still use an evergreen timer that doesn’t jeopardize your reputation or integrity.

The Deadline Funnel Social Deadline Feature

Deadline Funnel includes a Social Deadline feature that solves this problem. When people share your offer page, all the subsequent visitors stay on the same timer! How is that possible? Check this out:

You have worked hard to build good will, credibility and a sense of urgency about purchasing your offer. Why let something that is easy to control, affect your conversions?

You don’t have to DO anything to make this Social Deadline feature, work, it’s automatically included in all Deadline Funnel accounts. If you don’t have Deadline Funnel yet, get started with a 14-day free trial today. You will have two full weeks to kick the tires, use all the features and see if it’s right for your business.

Please let us know if you have any questions in the comments below. We’d love to help you out.