Early ReviewersMichelle Bartonico

In industries around the world, marketing principles and skills are a means to achieve business goals. Marketing Management Essentials (Third Edition) will give you the foundational knowledge — from budgeting techniques to marketing strategic planning to an introduction to career specialization areas — that will help ensure you are equipped for success as a marketing professional.

In this book you will:

• Learn how to build a marketing plan,
• Get an understanding of the various marketing specialization areas,
• Pick up approaches and resources to demonstrate marketing return on investment,
• Grasp how to self-evaluate your skills and competencies

The book also touches upon topics like market types, philosophies, strategic planning and marketing, various types of audits (internal, external and strategic), value chain analysis, outsourcing, marketing research (planning, approaches, research devices, ethics), relationships with customers (relationship marketing, types of customers, customer retention, digital marketing, and many more. These are coupled with summaries and quizzes at the end of every chapter, making the book a well-rounded guide for the readers.

The third edition of the book also contains three new chapters, each chapter bringing concepts like essential marketing skills you might need now and in the future, forming a marketing budget to judiciously allocate the expenses, and marketing return on investment (mROI). These chapters will surely help the readers bolster their understanding of marketing management by constructing a more robust, well-rounded foundation.

By the end of this book, you will have the tools and understanding to create or nurture a revenue-generating department for your organization. You will have a strong foundation, helping you with a headstart in your career as a professional in the marketing sphere.

Stakeholder Engagement is the lifeblood of project management because stakeholders can make or break a project.

• Identify key stakeholders in a project
• Understand the fundamentals of managing stakeholders
• Discover helpful approaches and strategies to engage stakeholders
• Learn how to build a Stakeholder Engagement plan
• Respond to stakeholder scenarios with the eye of a Project Manager

In Stakeholder Engagement Essentials You Always Wanted To Know, you will explore how to balance the tenets of project management with the uncertainties of human behavior. This book provides foundational essentials of Stakeholder Engagement along with practical techniques and tools to successfully navigate projects and your relationship with people in an organization. You can apply what you learn anytime you need to move a project, a conversation, or a partnership forward.

The book does not just state techniques to engage with stakeholders but makes learning fun and engaging with the help of case studies, activities, and tips that will tickle your brain and make your wear the hat of a Project Manager. You will gain a deeper understanding of project management and stakeholder engagement tools like Project Charters, Stakeholder Register, Power/Interest Matrix, etc.

Whether someone is a team lead, executive, or team member, it's essential to know how to anticipate, monitor, and engage people throughout the life cycle of a project and beyond.

By the end of Stakeholder Engagement Essentials, you will have a playbook for engaging stakeholders to achieve project success and deliver value to your organization.

This book is part of the Self-Learning Management Series designed to help students, managers, career switchers, and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons.

• Identify key stakeholders in a project
• Understand the fundamentals of managing stakeholders
• Discover helpful approaches and strategies to engage stakeholders
• Learn how to build a Stakeholder Engagement plan
• Respond to stakeholder scenarios with the eye of a Project Manager

Stakeholder Engagement is the lifeblood of project management because stakeholders can make or break a project.

In Stakeholder Engagement Essentials You Always Wanted To Know , you will explore how to balance the tenets of project management with the uncertainties of human behavior. This book provides foundational essentials of Stakeholder Engagement along with practical techniques and tools to successfully navigate projects and your relationship with people in an organization. You can apply what you learn anytime you need to move a project, a conversation, or a partnership forward.

The book does not just state techniques to engage with stakeholders but makes learning fun and engaging with the help of case studies, activities, and tips that will tickle your brain and make your wear the hat of a Project Manager. You will gain a deeper understanding of project management and stakeholder engagement tools like Project Charters, Stakeholder Register, Power/Interest Matrix, etc.

Whether someone is a team lead, executive, or team member, it's essential to know how to anticipate, monitor, and engage people throughout the life cycle of a project and beyond.

By the end of Stakeholder Engagement Essentials, you will have a playbook for engaging stakeholders to achieve project success and deliver value to your organization.

This book is part of the Self-Learning Management Series designed to help students, managers, career switchers, and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons.