1. 5/19/2018
Cisco Live 2016

2. Tell Us Your Story with Cisco Success Story Contest
Marcia Harlow
July 12, 2016

3. Tell Us Your Story with Cisco
…We Want to Share Your Success!
Several Partners Got Their Start by Taking Advantage of Opportunities Like This One and Are Seeing the Following Benefits
Awareness Among Our Channel Partner Community
New Connections with Channel Partners and Customers
Generating More Leads Through Online Store Fronts on the Cisco Marketplace, and Also by Participating in Cisco Events
We want more stories like this one.
We want to share your success. Tell us your story and have the opportunity to be included in our new Solutions Awareness Campaign
As a Solution Partner Program member, we want to help promote the great solutions you develop with us to deliver better business outcomes to customers.
Opportunity for you. Several partners like Purple, Librestream and Live Action got their start by taking advantage of opportunities like this one and are now seeing the benefits including:
More awareness of their solutions among our channel partner community
Making new connections with channel partners and customers
Generating more leads through their online store fronts on the Cisco Marketplace and also by participating in Cisco events
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4. Tell Us Your Story with Cisco
and we’ll help to promote your story
Partner Summit Keynotes
Partner Success Stories
Cisco Digital Channels
Cisco Partner Connections Events
Cisco Social Channels
Shark Tank Presentations to
Channel Partners

5. Solutionpartner.Cisco.com/Site/Dashboard/
How to Participate
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Answer a few questions on our online form, telling us about your success story including the challenge, the solution and the results.
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It’s easy to participate and will only take a few minutes of your time
All you need to do is answer a few questions on our online form, telling us about your success story including the challenge, the solution and the results.
You can submit your story to us by going to (show URL), completing the form and submit
The Solution Partner Program team will review all submissions to determine which ones best match our criteria

6. What Are We Looking For? Our Goal Looking for 10 or more great stories
Story Is Innovative, Creative Approach to Deliver a Business Outcome to a Customer
Approval From All Partners Involved in Delivering the Solution and also From the Customer Where the Solution is Implemented
Demonstrate Numerical Results Such as ROI, TCO, Savings, Cisco Pull Through, and for Cloud Stories - You Can Show Incremental Revenue You Received by Going to Market on a Cisco Cloud Architecture
Our Goal
Looking for 10 or more great stories
You Must Have an Online Storefront on the Cisco Marketplace in Either the Technology Solution Catalog or The Solution Showcase (Show Screen Shot)
The Story You Submit Must Be About the Solution That Is Integrated With Cisco Technology
To have your story considered, make sure it follows this criteria:
Story is innovative, creative approach to deliver a business outcome to a customer
How did you help to solve a problem that helped a customer to save money, increase productivity, enable them to deliver a better experience to their customers
Approval from all partners involved in delivering the solution and also from the customer who received the solution
We want to promote your story. In order to do this, you need to make sure we can publically use the names of all parties involved
Are able to show numerical results such as ROI, TCO, savings, Cisco pull through, and for Cloud stories, you can show incremental revenue you received by going to market on a Cisco cloud architecture
You must have an online storefront on the Cisco Marketplace in either the Technology Solution Catalog or the Solution Showcase (show screen shot)
We want to be able to help drive traffic to your online storefront

7. Cisco Live 2016
5/19/2018
Tell Us Your Story with Cisco Video What We Are Looking For and What We’ll Do With Your Story
Watch The Video
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Next Steps
Starting Now!
Submit Your Stories Before
Friday, September 2nd
We Will Send You an After Cisco Live With all the Contest Details and the Link to the Form
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Monday, October 3rd
Winners Announced
Solution Partner Program Newsletter and your partner dashboard
The Tell Us Your Story form is available on the Solution Partner Program Dashboard
If Your Story Is Selected, You Will be Contacted by One of Our Solution Partner Program Team Members

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