For over a decade, companions have been utilizing Advertising and marketing Velocity to speed up their time-to-market and extra not too long ago have adopted Cisco Advertising and marketing Velocity Central (MVC) as their full-scale advertising engine. MVC is a digital, co-marketing expertise providing companions always-on studying, content material, and free providers designed to create built-in advertising campaigns and generate demand to assist develop your online business.
Cisco Advertising and marketing Velocity (MV) gives an end-to-end centralized place for companions to handle all their advertising wants when co-marketing with Cisco resulting in:
- Aligned Cisco-Associate GTM messaging
- Model compliance
- Promote Cisco’s campaign-led mannequin
- Accelerated advertising outcomes with much less resourcing
Via the years, 1000’s of companions have utilized MVC to handle all their co-marketing wants with Cisco as a result of as , after we market collectively, we win collectively.
One factor positively stands out – companions who use Cisco Advertising and marketing Velocity Central can generate 5.2 instances extra pipeline.* Not solely that, however we see that quantity growing yr over yr (elevated from 4x in FY2023 to five.2x in FY2024). We attribute this progress to making sure our companions have what they should develop their enterprise.
Good factor our customers usually are not shy! They’ve enthusiastically offered Cisco with suggestions which we use to repeatedly enhance. This previous yr the suggestions included issues like discoverability, content material combine, design and consumer expertise. We used this helpful suggestions to unveil our most up-to-date replace.
What’s New with Cisco Advertising and marketing Velocity Central (MVC)?
Final week we unveiled a wholly new expertise for Cisco Advertising and marketing Velocity Central (MVC). We took all of the suggestions from companions to re-design a brand new, less complicated expertise that can also be aligned to Cisco.com and targeted on accelerating joint Cisco and associate outcomes.
To start, we created an intuitive, fashionable platform basis that has decreased the complexity and allows you to discover what you want by way of a simplified search operate. This consists of:
- New, streamlined, constant design with navigation aligned to companions’ prime duties tailor-made particularly to your profile
- Enhanced filtering and search expertise that makes it simpler for companions to seek out extra related marketing campaign content material: Understanding search, filters, and extra
- New featured resolution overviews to spotlight essentially the most salient alternatives
- Simplified reporting and analytics dashboard to facilitate marketing campaign evaluation to measure RESULTS
This replace facilitates simpler utilization of MV advertising automation options which embody the flexibility to customise Cisco-made or generic automated e mail workflows, net plugins (microsites, showcases, and banners) and social media.
Early consumer expertise signifies an pleasure in regards to the new options and when you missed the Unveiling broadcast final week, click on to view the MV recorded overview and demo.
Extra precedence campaigns
As we started doing this yr, we are going to proceed to assist companions navigate and prioritize resolution campaigns. One instance, is our current safety marketing campaign targeted on Consumer Safety: Marketing campaign Highlight: Driving Demand with Advertising and marketing Velocity Central and Consumer Safety Marketing campaign.
Count on to see extra featured campaigns with particulars on how entrepreneurs can faucet into step-by-step guides. Prepared-made advertising content material, and instruments.
At all times evolving – what’s subsequent in 2025
As talked about, suggestions pushes us to proceed streamlining and simplifying the expertise. What’s on the horizon in 2025?
- Personalised expertise: The aim is to ship a seamless digital demand engine the place companions can simply and shortly discover – in 5 clicks or much less – the best advertising asset, marketing campaign, or studying useful resource to co-market options with Cisco and ship a personalised expertise to help companions as they develop their enterprise in managed providers, SaaS, and amongst SMB clients.
- AI: Think about when you might seek the advice of an AI Professional whereas constructing your personal content material. What when you might do full social media augmentation? And what when you might use generative AI to construct campaigns, auto constructing of emails, touchdown pages, and workflow after which enable you to take it by way of your subsequent greatest motion to activate with clients. These are only a few options which can be on the close to horizon with MVC and AI.
- Advertising and marketing Velocity Studying (MVL) – a simplified associate studying expertise will get even less complicated. Upcoming enhancements will additional empower companions to create efficient campaigns. Sources for co-marketing with Cisco will velocity up marketing campaign adoption.
MV Reimagined Associate Activation Contest
Final week we formally launched our model new MV Reimagined Associate Activation contest, and we would like YOU to hitch the enjoyable! Unleash your “mad” advertising abilities and degree as much as grow to be a Cisco Advertising and marketing ‘Prime Activator’.
How do you take part and win? The competition runs till 10 January. Full and submit the competition type right here and signal as much as take part and win an Apple iPad Air, a Samsung Good Projector, or a Meta Quest 3!
What we need to see sooner or later:
The continuing evolution by no means stops. We need to proceed to listen to from you – what works greatest however might be improved, what continues to be wanted, and so forth.
Go to Advertising and marketing Velocity Central to start constructing your personal campaigns utilizing our step-by-step information.
*Annual Advertising and marketing Velocity Efficiency Evaluate, Knowledge from the Cisco Strategic Funding, Insights, and Analytics Crew
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