Early-bird pricing that creates urgency
An early-bird tier is not a discount, it is a deadline wearing a discount's clothes. Done right it rewards your fastest fans and drags a chunk of your sales forward into week one. Done lazily it just leaves money on the table. The difference is whether the urgency is real.
Tier it
Set a lower early-bird price with a hard quantity cap, then a regular tier that takes over the second it sells out. The price is the carrot; the cap is the clock. Without the cap you have a discount. With it you have a reason to buy now.
Make the deadline impossible to miss
An urgency nobody can see is not urgency. Say when early bird ends, or how few are left, and hammer it as the moment approaches. The countdown is the product here, not the few dollars off.
Never quietly reopen it
The fastest way to kill early-bird pricing forever is to bring it back every time someone asks. Your audience learns the lesson in one cycle: the deadline is fake, so wait. Let it close for real, and the next one still works.
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