Why it works
Setting a deadline forces the brain to move from passive consideration to active decision-making. People prioritize tasks that feel like they require immediate action.
Example
If you can chat before Friday, I can apply the current quarterly discount to your account setup.
An illustration of the mechanism, not a template. Copied verbatim it stops being persuasion and starts being the pattern everyone else is already sending.
Is your sequence pulling this one?
Paste it in and find out which levers are working, which are missing, and which single zero is capping the whole message.