If all the practice consultants and marketing experts have such great ideas to share, why aren't they using them to run their own successful practices? Finally, a book that offers not just ideas but proven strategies for transforming any financial practice into a highly effective value-delivering machine. Practicing financial advisor Matthew Jarvis uses these exact strategies to run his own wildly successful investment firm. Delivering Massive Value outlines a system you can actually replicate to increase your business's efficiency, attract more A-level clients, and build the practice of your dreams. You'll find:

• Client scripts your team can use today
• The trials and tribulations of Jarvis' rise to success
• Simple but powerful ways to consistently offer your clients more value (while taking more vacations)
• Everything the investment gurus won't tell you about what really works
• Running a top-class investment practice doesn't mean playing the stock market, it means working with a winning system.

Say goodbye to underwhelming accounts, after-hours appointments, and endless frustration-with Delivering Massive Value, you'll learn a reliable system that will help you deliver more value to your clients than you ever thought possible.

The Mallarmé Poems introduces a vibrant and exciting new voice in Welsh poetry. More than anything, I am struck by the way in which these poems are alive: through these black marks on the page, a skilful management of form and a riotous music which is very much his own. The author conjures, in poem after poem, a person who's suddenly standing there next to you, breathing down your neck, talking insistently in your ear. Whether the poems' subjects are world-weariness or games of cards, the stink of cities or the sound of footsteps, they are always wonderfully engaged with the dance and the party that language can be. The work of writers like Alan Gillis and Glyn Maxwell comes to mind and, if it is true that the best poems often give us an irrepressible personality, The Mallarmé Poems gives us an unforgettable person, talking to us, now, leaping from these pages into our lives. - Jonathan Edwards