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Everything you need to know to get started with Deadline Funnel and MailerLite

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Written by Anthony Xiques
Updated over a week ago

Table of contents

  • Introduction: Estimated time to complete, what you need before you start, and what we'll show you how to create

  • Key concepts: Video about the Deadline Funnel webhook and email links

  • Core setup: Create a Deadline Funnel campaign, add the webhook to your automation, use Deadline Funnel email links

  • Next steps: Email timers, sales tracking, custom fields, and testing

Introduction

In this guide, we will show you how to create an evergreen campaign in Deadline Funnel that connects to your automation in MailerLite.

We recommend starting with this guide if you are using MailerLite. 🙂

But if you do not want to create an evergreen campaign - and you want to create a fixed-date campaign - please refer to this guide instead.

🕐 Estimated time: 30 minutes

⚠️ Before you start:

  • Make sure you have already created an automation in MailerLite

  • Write at least two or three emails in the automation

  • Create a special offer page on your website that will be specifically for subscribers going through this automation

  • Create an expired page on your website that subscribers will be redirected to after their deadline expires

🏗️ We'll show you how to create:

  • An evergreen Deadline Funnel campaign using the Email Sequence + Special Offer blueprint (required)

  • A Deadline Funnel webhook added to MailerLite (required)

  • One or more Deadline Funnel email links in your automation emails (required)

  • One or more Deadline Funnel email timers in your automation emails (optional)


Key concepts

Please watch this quick video about how Deadline Funnel integrates with MailerLite:

⏰ THE WEBHOOK: The trigger that starts each subscriber's deadline

Each subscriber who is added to your list or to a group you specify in MailerLite, will trigger the webhook and will be added to your Deadline Funnel campaign.

Example: In a 3-day evergreen campaign, if someone subscribes on Monday, their deadline will be Thursday. And someone else who subscribes on Tuesday will have a deadline on Friday.

"But what about when they open an email or click a link in an email?"

It does not matter if your subscribers open an email, when they open an email, or even if/when they click a link in your email.

Each subscriber's deadline will be calculated based on when they subscribed in MailerLite and triggered the Deadline Funnel webhook.

🔗 EMAIL LINKS: Redirect subscribers to your special offer or expired page

In your emails, you will use the Deadline Funnel email links wherever you are linking to your special offer page (instead of linking to your special offer page directly).

Example: If you are linking to www.example.com/special-offer, you will use the Deadline Funnel email link in your email (i.e. https://dfl0.us/s/a0e00c83?em={$email} ) instead of www.example.com/special-offer.

When a subscriber clicks on a Deadline Funnel email link, Deadline Funnel will look up their deadline (based on when they were tagged and triggered the webhook) and either redirect them to your special offer page or the expired page.


Core setup

These three steps are required in order to integrate Deadline Funnel + MailerLite. 🙂

1. Create a campaign in Deadline Funnel

When creating your campaign, select the Email Sequence + Special Offer blueprint:

2. Add the Deadline Funnel webhook to MailerLite to start each subscriber's unique deadline

After you've created your Deadline Funnel campaign, set up the integration between Deadline Funnel and MailerLite

This integration allows you to trigger the deadline based on when a specific tag is applied to a contact.

MailerLite offers two versions, namely MailerLite (Classic) and MailerLite (New), and you can find our guides for each in the links below.

3. Add Deadline Funnel email links to your automation emails

Copy the Deadline Funnel email link from the Emails section of your campaign:

Use this link in your emails anywhere that you are linking to your special offer page, instead of linking directly to the special offer page.

Now, when someone receives your emails and clicks on the Deadline Funnel email link, Deadline Funnel will look up that subscriber's email address and automatically redirect them to either your special offer page or offer expired page.


Next steps

Please visit the following guides to learn how to:

4️⃣ Test your campaign so you can verify exactly what your subscribers will experience


If you have any questions, please let us know at help@deadlinefunnel.com or in our live chat at the bottom right of your screen

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