Sales Lead Management Association Poetry Challenge

Are you an unrequited poet? Now is your chance to join the muses and entertain the business community with your poetry on one of four subjects (unless you can stuff all four into one poem). Put your poetry skills to work on the subjects of sales lead management, marketing ROI, CRM or Marketing Automation.

Be creative in your poetry, you can use any form of poetry you like, from blank verse to free verse, Haiku to Senryu, a Limerick (be careful here) to a Sonnet; we’ll publish it if is in good taste and addresses one of the critical areas of sales lead management (below). Be creative, be wild, be serious, be humorous, but above all have fun.

The Poetry must address one or more of the following subjects:

• Sales Lead Management
• Marketing ROI
• Customer Resource Management (CRM)
• Marketing Automation

Guidelines:

1. The poetry can be of any length or style (there are 55 types of poetry - here are a few types).
2. The subject of the poetry must be one or more of the following subjects: Sales Lead Management, Marketing ROI, CRM, or Marketing Automation.
3. The author must be a member of the SLMA (joining is free).
4. The deadline for submissions is September 15th.
5. The SLMA will publish the poetry, but the ownership resides with the author.
6. The poetry will stay on the SLMA website for at least 12 months.
7. This is not a contest, but the most interesting and original submissions in each category will be given an Elegant SLMA Coffee Mug (very rare) for their efforts. There are no criteria for choosing Elegant SLMA Coffee Mug recipients other than that the founders of the SLMA find the entry to be original, amusing and addresses some truth about sales lead management. There is no guarantee that an Elegant SLMA Coffee Mug will be awarded. A total of four Elegant SLMA Coffee Mugs could be awarded.
8. SLMA Management reserves the right to not publish poetry if it is slanderous, too sensuous, titillating, foul, in bad taste (our call) or otherwise disgusting without making a point.
9. The poetry will be published on the SLMA site and must have an author’s name and contact information (email). Only your name and company (if you desire) will be published with the work of art. Your contact information is for our purposes should we want to award you one of the very rare Elegant SLMA Coffee Mugs.
10. Submissions must be in English for which we apologize to SLMA members from 100+ counties, but we aren’t multi-lingual enough to review the submissions in the original language.

Don’t wait to post your poetry, do it now. Multiple entries are encouraged.