Retention Marketing Automation Contest Entry Form
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Win Big While Helping Us Perfect Your Marketing Experience

Enter our Retention Marketing Automation Contest and share your insights on lifecycle marketing, campaign personalization, and customer engagement strategies. Perfect for marketing professionals, agencies, and business owners looking to optimize their retention efforts while competing for valuable prizes.

Why Paperform is Perfect for Marketing Contests

Running sophisticated marketing contests requires more than just basic contact collection. This Retention Marketing Automation Contest Entry Form demonstrates how Paperform empowers marketing teams and agencies to create intelligent, data-rich entry forms that do double duty: engaging participants while gathering actionable insights about customer lifecycle stages, campaign preferences, and attribution needs.

Unlike rigid contest platforms, Paperform's doc-style editor lets you craft an on-brand experience that feels like a natural extension of your marketing site. Mix educational content, qualifying questions, and entry fields seamlessly—then use conditional logic to tailor questions based on company size, marketing maturity, or specific challenges respondents face.

Built for Marketing Teams & Agencies

This template is specifically designed for:

  • Marketing Directors & CMOs running lead generation campaigns that need to segment audiences by lifecycle stage and engagement level
  • Marketing Agencies managing contests for multiple clients who need sophisticated data collection and attribution tracking
  • Growth Marketers looking to understand customer journeys, personalization opportunities, and campaign effectiveness
  • Marketing Automation Specialists who want to map contest entries directly into nurture sequences based on respondent profiles
  • Demand Generation Teams collecting zero-party data for better targeting and personalization

Capture Rich Marketing Intelligence

This form goes beyond name and email to collect strategic marketing data:

  • Lifecycle stage mapping to understand where prospects are in their journey
  • Current marketing stack and automation tool usage for better targeting
  • Personalization maturity and strategy preferences
  • Attribution challenges and tracking needs
  • Campaign trigger preferences for future engagement
  • Industry and company demographics for segmentation

The conditional logic adapts questions based on company size, marketing sophistication, and specific pain points—ensuring you collect relevant insights from every participant without overwhelming them.

Seamless Integration with Your Marketing Stack

Connect this contest form directly to your marketing automation and CRM tools:

  • Push entries to HubSpot, Marketo, or Pardot with lifecycle stage tags automatically applied
  • Segment leads in your CRM based on their personalization maturity and attribution needs
  • Trigger tailored nurture campaigns via Stepper workflows based on respondent challenges
  • Feed data to Google Sheets or Airtable for advanced analysis and reporting
  • Sync with your email platform to launch contest-specific campaigns
  • Connect to Slack for real-time notifications of high-value entries

Use Stepper to automatically route qualified leads to sales, add them to specific nurture tracks, or trigger follow-up sequences based on their lifecycle stage and marketing challenges—all without manual work.

Turn Contest Entries into Marketing Assets

Every submission becomes a valuable data point for your retention strategy:

  • Segment entrants by lifecycle stage for targeted post-contest campaigns
  • Identify attribution modeling needs to position your solutions
  • Map personalization gaps to create relevant content offers
  • Score leads based on marketing maturity for prioritized follow-up
  • Build ICP profiles from real prospect data
  • Generate content ideas from common challenges mentioned

With Paperform's AI Insights, you can analyze hundreds of contest entries to identify trends in lifecycle challenges, preferred campaign types, and personalization strategies—turning contest data into actionable marketing intelligence.

Professional, Branded Contest Experience

Your contest form is a marketing asset, not just a data capture tool:

  • Customize fonts, colors, and buttons to match your brand perfectly
  • Add hero images, GIFs, or videos showcasing contest prizes and benefits
  • Create multi-page layouts or use Guided Mode for a conversational, one-question-at-a-time experience
  • Design custom success pages with social sharing buttons to amplify reach
  • Embed seamlessly into your website or landing pages, or use a custom domain
  • Optimize for mobile with responsive design that converts on any device

The form includes built-in validation to ensure clean, CRM-ready data, plus required field enforcement for critical qualifying information.

Prize Management & Winner Selection

Beyond data collection, manage the entire contest lifecycle:

  • Collect consent for contest rules and marketing communications
  • Track referral sources to measure campaign attribution
  • Export entries for random winner selection or scoring-based evaluation
  • Send automated confirmation emails with contest details and timeline
  • Create separate landing pages for contest rules and winner announcements

For agencies running contests across multiple clients, Paperform's Agency+ plan lets you manage all contest forms under one roof with white-label options and client-specific branding.

Data Security & Compliance You Can Trust

Running marketing contests means handling prospect data responsibly:

  • SOC 2 Type II compliance ensures enterprise-grade security
  • GDPR-friendly with proper consent mechanisms and data handling
  • SSL encryption on all form submissions
  • Spam protection with reCAPTCHA and honeypot fields
  • Data residency controls for location-specific requirements
  • Clear consent checkboxes for contest rules and communication opt-ins

Scale Your Contest Marketing Efforts

As your contest grows, Paperform scales with you:

  • Unlimited responses on higher-tier plans to support viral campaigns
  • Real-time analytics to track entry volume and completion rates
  • Conditional logic performance that handles complex question routing at scale
  • Team collaboration with roles and permissions for agencies and larger teams
  • A/B test different form variations to optimize conversion rates

Perfect for Multiple Marketing Contest Types

This template adapts to various retention marketing contest scenarios:

  • Solution showcase contests where participants submit their marketing automation challenges
  • Strategy submission contests for best lifecycle campaign designs
  • Case study contests where marketers share retention wins
  • Innovation challenges for creative personalization approaches
  • Referral contests with built-in viral mechanics
  • Educational contests that qualify and nurture simultaneously

Get Started in Minutes, Customize Forever

Unlike purpose-built contest platforms that lock you into rigid templates, Paperform gives you complete creative control. Start with this professionally designed template and adapt it to match your specific contest mechanics, prize structure, and data needs—all without touching a line of code.

Marketing teams at agencies, SaaS companies, and eCommerce brands trust Paperform to run high-converting contests that generate qualified leads while gathering zero-party data for better personalization. Join over 500,000 teams worldwide using Paperform to create forms that work as hard as they do.

Ready to launch a contest that drives retention insights and qualified leads? Start with this template and customize it to match your brand, prizes, and marketing goals in minutes.

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HIR.png
HKTB-logo.png
Kenyon.png
Rice_University_Horizontal_Blue.png
accor-3.png
adp-1.png
avallain-logo-svg-160-px.png
axa-768.png
danone-2.png
deloitte-1.png
logo_andorra_telecom_df137f1a8f.png
michelin-4.png
raywhite.png
suncorp-logo-358x104.png
unesco.png
Bitmap.png
HIR.png
HKTB-logo.png
Kenyon.png
Rice_University_Horizontal_Blue.png
accor-3.png
adp-1.png
avallain-logo-svg-160-px.png
axa-768.png
danone-2.png
deloitte-1.png
logo_andorra_telecom_df137f1a8f.png
michelin-4.png
raywhite.png
suncorp-logo-358x104.png
unesco.png
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