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What You Need to Know About Email Countdown Timers

What Are Email Countdown Timers?

The Email Countdown Timer is an animated GIF depicting the passing of time. These are often real-time timers that can be added to your email with some simple HTML or CSS coding. While HTML coding can accomplish this effect dramatically, some marketers prefer to use countdown GIFs instead.

There isn’t much of a learning curve involved in integrating a countdown timer into your email marketing efforts. Here, we’ll discuss email countdown timers and demonstrate how you can incorporate one into your next email marketing campaign. The online generator available at Sendtric simplifies the procedure without adding any additional costs.

Compatibility

Email countdown timer images are, at their most basic, still pictures (.gif). Since this is the case, it’s evident that most email clients can communicate with one another without any problems. Some cases won’t fit the rule, but that’s the way life is. Except for desktop versions of Outlook, nearly all email clients can display animated GIFs. Although Outlook 2007, 2010, and 2013 don’t support animated GIFs in their entirety, they do support the first frame. When using a Sendtric timer, you can rest assured that the time remaining will always be displayed accurately because the initial frame is dynamically updated.

The Value of Using Countdown Timers in Email

One of the most promising new developments in email marketing is dynamic content integration. Online marketers relying on email campaigns always look for ways to improve their efforts. This may be due to the fact that studies have found that emails sent without such interaction have a negligible effect. You should add interactive features, such as a countdown timer, to your emails. You can use these moving pictures to promote the time left until an upcoming sale, event, or other deadlines.

It facilitates sale announcements.

Our clients often need us to help them promote an emergency sale. Clients also use it for limited-time deals, personalized discount offers, etc. Including a countdown timer in email announcements is an excellent idea for a store that frequently has flash sales.  

 

It creates an atmosphere of urgency.

Inculcating a perception of urgency in the minds of consumers is the single most effective strategy for increasing sales and conversions. Emails with a countdown timer can increase click-through rates and user engagement by making the recipient feel as though time is of the essence.

It’s an aid in keeping things clear.

Confusion often arises when dealing with dates, times, and time zones. Since timers are so simple, anyone can follow the countdown marketers provide and take action on time.

It has multiple, varying applications.

Uses for email count down timers are plentiful. Customers have used our timers for various purposes, some examples of which include political advertising, deadlines, sign-up drives, and more.

How to Set Up Email Countdown Timers with Sendtric

Thanks to Sendtric’s intuitive design, adding sophisticated countdown timers to your outgoing email campaigns is a breeze. The free tool we provide allows you to select from a variety of pre-set language options and design the chart’s background, labels, and numbers to your specifications.

There’s no need to sign up for an account before you can start creating them. When we say “free,” we don’t mean there are strings attached. We won’t put up any barriers if you want to give our service a try because we know what we’re doing in the world of email marketing. We’ve provided step-by-step instructions below to help you make the most of our free email countdown timer.

  1. Drop by our home page at https://sendtric.com.
  2. Type in your email and timer setting choices.
  3. Click on “Generate.”
  4. Lastly, copy and paste the code into the HTML email template.

To learn more, send an email to support@sendtric.com. We’ll respond as soon as we can.