Use case

Time-Limited Campaigns: Automate Scarcity with Expiring Links

The campaign ends, but the link shouldn't break. Learn how expiring short links automate scarcity, secure digital assets, and optimize old traffic.

Expiring Links and Promos

If you drop a heavily discounted Black Friday link, launch a highly anticipated digital product cohort, or send an enterprise pricing quote to a client, you need boundaries.

The traditional way of enforcing those boundaries is painful. Marketers have to log in on Sunday essentially precisely at midnight to manually delete the "Discount" page and reset the public URLs across all their social media platforms.

Koi Link Shortener solves this by turning time into a programmable routing variable.

Automating the Teardown

An expiring link gives you total control over the lifespan of your promotion. The moment the expiration timeline triggers, the link does not simply execute a hard stop or throw a 404 dead-end error to late-arriving fans.

  • The Flawless Pivot: A creator deploys brand.link/weekend-cohort. The link expires completely on Sunday at 11:59 PM. When a fan clicks it on Monday morning, the link flawlessly redirects them to the "Cohort 5 Waitlist" email capture page. You protect your conversion flow without updating your historical descriptions.
  • The DTC Retail Save: Save your margin. Automatically pivot a 50% discount funnel directly back to the standard retail storefront the precise second the flash sale is over.

Deal Velocity and Proposal Scrubbing

In high-end client services and SaaS enterprise relations, an Account Executive (AE) sends pricing timelines attached to quarterly targets.

Never let a heavily discounted onboarding proposal sit silently on the internet waiting to be exploited six months from now.

  • The B2B Timer: Using Koi, the AE configures the specific pricing quote asset to rigorously terminate precisely at 5:00 PM on the final day of Q3. If the prospect attempts to stall the negotiation process and access the quote next month, the click cleanly reroutes them directly back to the AE’s Calendly booking portal. The scarcity is software-enforced.

Let Koi act as a reliable timekeeper for your digital campaigns and sales floors.

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