Community Countdown

Have you ever thought about having a Community Countdown on your forum for events, anniversaries or maybe the end of a sale in your marketplace? Would you ever use such a thing?

Countdowns are a good form of scarcity marketing practices.

XX days until XX is over.

I’m sure it could work on forums just so long as you have a target audience that will be happy to perform the action associated with the countdown.

People often wonder why their members aren’t buying something. But when you ask if they’ve targeted an audience that is motivated to buy something, they’re clueless. It all really boils down to your target audience.

This topic actually reminded me that I created a “Countdown BBCode” for ZetaBoards at one point that I should probably convert to Jcink and Forum Spark. 👍️

On Nov 10, 2026, Cory said:

This topic actually reminded me that I created a “Countdown BBCode” for ZetaBoards at one point that I should probably convert to Jcink and Forum Spark. 👍️

That would be great!

I think it would be useful for contests and stuff like that!

Kathy said:

That would be great!

We’ll see. I’ll probably convert it to Jcink first, then ForumSpark. That’s just because I’m more of a master at jQuery than I am Vanilla JavaScript.