For holiday promotions, Countdown Timer Popup by OptinMonster in four steps to boost online sales

November 26, 2020 by Rajeev Bagra Leave a Comment

Last Updated on June 1, 2022 by Editor

About OptinMonster: Powerful lead generation tool with tons of features including Mobile-Exit Intent Technology, beautiful templates, variety of campaign types, intelligent insights, seamless integration, and more. To view full features, click here.

For this post, my focus is on Countdown Timer Popup.

As per OptinMonster Team, “We’ve tested adding an animated countdown timer on several of our own sites, including OptinMonster and WPForms. The results have been astonishing, even to us!”

With OptinMonster subscription, one can easily embed countdown timers on any website.

Step 1: Launching a new Countdown Campaign Template and customizing

Go to OptinMonster dashboard and click Create Campaign.

Choose Floating Bar under Campaign Type.

Under Campaign Template, select Countdown.

Give a name to your Floating Campaign while mentioning the website/websites where the countdown timer popup will display.

Tip: Keep pressing Save button frequently.

Next, fill the fields that appear for choosing End Date/End Time.

The countdown timer can be customized with your own choice of colors, fonts, and more through Settings icon.

Change the text with the offer. Just click the text on the live preview, and you see the screen appearing to the left in order to make changes.

The offer text is changed to “Thanksgiving Sale: Get 25% Off Any Order”.

The button texts and colors can be customized by clicking on the button appearing on live preview.

Now, once a user opts in for the offer, you need to configure Success view. It can be providing them with a coupon code once they have completed their signup. Click Success tab.

Next, background color ( #B54730), offer text (centered, “Here’s your 25% off discount code.”), and discount code (“THANKS25”, background color set to #F1B930) changed.

Step 2: Connecting with your email service provider

In order to collect email addresses of those who opted for the offer, you need to connect the campaign with an email service provider. OptinMonster integrates with all the major ones including Active Campaign and Constant Contact.

Click Integrations tab.

Click Add New Integration and select your choice of Email Provider. For this example, it is Constant Contact.

Now, you are taken to the screen that asks for login credentials of Constant Contact account.

Now, your Constant Contact email lists are fetched. Select the one you wish to connect OptinMonster countdown timer campaign with.

Step 3: Setting Time, Web Pages

Now is the time to set Display Rules. Go to Display Rules Tab and set floating bar to be displayed on or before a particular date. We have seen the setting of time earlier as well under Step 1. However, earlier we were defining the view that users will see. Now, we are setting the time from which the countdown timer will actually display on website (or rather web page/pages to be precise).

Select the url where the countdown timer will display. Earlier the website was selected. Now, the exact page/pages chosen.

Finally, press the Publish button.

Step 4: Embedding/Connecting with your website or online store

OptinMonster can be embedded on any website. For WordPress and Shopify, there are plugins to further ease the process. For WordPress, there is WordPress Connector plugin. Once the plugin installed, go to WordPress dashboard and click OptinMonster icon. A list of all your Optins or campaigns appear. Click Go Live button next to the campaign name to make the same live.

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