I have been attending the BRAVERY event (a.k.a. the Partner Quick Hit Briefings) since at least 2014, and probably before that. They have been a great tool for me to hear how to message Cisco products and solutions to my customers and my sales organization at Black Box. Your approach has proven to be very good at helping many people better understand Cisco and how to position it to our customers to help close more business. I certainly hope that Cisco management figures out how to continue your program, and hopefully even grow it into FY18 and beyond.
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Robyn McCarty
9 years ago
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, continue to hold the Quick Hit Briefings. Your briefings have been instrumental in educating me and my colleagues on the various offerings at Cisco. Trying to navigator the Cisco offerings on our own was a nightmare often ending in dead ends.
A few years ago, I worked for a partner that was new to the Cisco reseller channel and we did not have an assigned CAM. Your Briefings where all we had to learn how to navigate the Cisco channel. I am very grateful for your briefings and your passion to educate the reseller channel.
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Matt Creswell
9 years ago
Keep the Quick Hit! Keeps me informed!
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Jeff West
9 years ago
Please continue the Quick Hit Briefings! They are a great way to keep abreast of Cisco technology and learn of new products. I have taken several screen shots of various briefings and used them in presentations with customers.
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Tom Myers
9 years ago
Hey Brian
Your Quick Hit Briefings are the best thing Cisco has put out in a long time.
In our busy fast changing technology field it has been a valuable tool in attempting to keep current with Cisco offerings
No other manufacture we deal with has the concise, relevant, timely updates in a very engaging format like you do!
Please keep these going and thanks for all you have done!!!
Tom Myers
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Crystal Cairrel
9 years ago
As I am not in a field or Sales position at my reseller company; these briefings are invaluable to keep me up-to-date on current offerings, updates, and functionality of the components I work with from Cisco.
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Tyler G West
9 years ago
Please tell me you’re joking. This isn’t even funny.
The quick hit briefings have been the absolute best way I have seen to date of keeping partners informed and up-to-date on products, solutions, features, etc. It is the best balance between engineering-oriented and sales-oriented programs.
I love the Tech Talks and the VoE series but, with all due respect to those guys, much of their content tends to be obscure and less relevant to me as a partner engineer. And I struggle to get anything useful out of the total sales-oriented presentations. The quick hit briefings fit me like a glove. They don’t take too much time out of my schedule and 80-90% of the time the content is directly relevant to me, my organization, and my customers. Brian keeps me glued to the screen instead of distracted by other things. My God, guys, don’t fix what ain’t broken.
I don’t make every briefing but I make as many as I can. And, correct me if I’m wrong, attendance has been growing. Doesn’t that tell you that our favorite Cisco superstar has been doing something right? If you take away the briefings then you will take away my PRIMARY resource for keeping up with what’s going on and staying relevant with my own customers. Brian may only cover a certain territory but I don’t think you even begin to see the revenue he has had a hand in making for Cisco and for partners all over the place.
Do the right thing. Please let Brian continue to do what he does so well. I don’t know what I will do without him and the quick hit series.
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Cindy Lee
9 years ago
Hi Brian – Please impress to upper management that these Quick Hit briefings need to continue. These are so valuable!! You are able to articulate the technology that is easy to understand but technical enough to really grasp what this stuff does in a way that we can remember. Anyone can list specs or we can look that up. You are able to “tell a story” around the technology and that is what people remember. I sign up for every briefing you have as I find this a great use of my time.
Please don’t stop the quick hit briefings!! It would be REALLY BAD!
Thanks for all you do! Cisco needs to clone you!
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Paul Teel
9 years ago
Excellent series!
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Excellent high level overview of Cisco products and developments.
I have been attending the BRAVERY event (a.k.a. the Partner Quick Hit Briefings) since at least 2014, and probably before that. They have been a great tool for me to hear how to message Cisco products and solutions to my customers and my sales organization at Black Box. Your approach has proven to be very good at helping many people better understand Cisco and how to position it to our customers to help close more business. I certainly hope that Cisco management figures out how to continue your program, and hopefully even grow it into FY18 and beyond.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, continue to hold the Quick Hit Briefings. Your briefings have been instrumental in educating me and my colleagues on the various offerings at Cisco. Trying to navigator the Cisco offerings on our own was a nightmare often ending in dead ends. A few years ago, I worked for a partner that was new to the Cisco reseller channel and we did not have an assigned CAM. Your Briefings where all we had to learn how to navigate the Cisco channel. I am very grateful for your briefings and your passion to educate the reseller channel.
Keep the Quick Hit! Keeps me informed!
Please continue the Quick Hit Briefings! They are a great way to keep abreast of Cisco technology and learn of new products. I have taken several screen shots of various briefings and used them in presentations with customers.
Hey Brian Your Quick Hit Briefings are the best thing Cisco has put out in a long time. In our busy fast changing technology field it has been a valuable tool in attempting to keep current with Cisco offerings No other manufacture we deal with has the concise, relevant, timely updates in a very engaging format like you do! Please keep these going and thanks for all you have done!!! Tom Myers
As I am not in a field or Sales position at my reseller company; these briefings are invaluable to keep me up-to-date on current offerings, updates, and functionality of the components I work with from Cisco.
Please tell me you’re joking. This isn’t even funny. The quick hit briefings have been the absolute best way I have seen to date of keeping partners informed and up-to-date on products, solutions, features, etc. It is the best balance between engineering-oriented and sales-oriented programs. I love the Tech Talks and the VoE series but, with all due respect to those guys, much of their content tends to be obscure and less relevant to me as a partner engineer. And I struggle to get anything useful out of the total sales-oriented presentations. The quick hit briefings fit me like a glove. They don’t take too much time out of my schedule and 80-90% of the time the content is directly relevant to me, my organization, and my customers. Brian keeps me glued to the screen instead of distracted by other things. My God, guys, don’t fix what ain’t broken. I don’t make every briefing but I make as many as I can. And, correct me if I’m wrong, attendance has been growing. Doesn’t that tell you that our favorite Cisco superstar has been doing something right? If you take away the briefings then you will take away my PRIMARY resource for keeping up with what’s going on and staying relevant with my own customers. Brian may only cover a certain territory but I don’t think you even begin to see the revenue he has had a hand in making for Cisco and for partners all over the place. Do the right thing. Please let Brian continue to do what he does so well. I don’t know what I will do without him and the quick hit series.
Hi Brian – Please impress to upper management that these Quick Hit briefings need to continue. These are so valuable!! You are able to articulate the technology that is easy to understand but technical enough to really grasp what this stuff does in a way that we can remember. Anyone can list specs or we can look that up. You are able to “tell a story” around the technology and that is what people remember. I sign up for every briefing you have as I find this a great use of my time. Please don’t stop the quick hit briefings!! It would be REALLY BAD! Thanks for all you do! Cisco needs to clone you!
Excellent series!
Excellent high level overview of Cisco products and developments.
These are great assets to us.