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The Digital Home of Practice Development
The Upward Spiral Professionals (USP)
Practice Development for Accounting Professionals
in the UK
The Upward Spiral Professionals (USP) is a community of progressively minded accounting firms who wish to benefit from best practice in developing a 21st-century practice from both each other and the members of USP’s Expert Partners.
Membership in USP offers a series of value propositions that makes investing in membership a cost-neutral position for the firm in real terms.
The USP Membership was established to deliver what I'm often told that members of other 'clubs' are looking for but with the added bonus of being able to upgrade to certain special interest communities such as People, Fee Growth, Marketing, Technology etc as they desired.
The USP Vault has been specifically established to support accounting firms through different levels of USP membership.
In addition, access to the Vault is available to firms globally who are not able to take advantage of in-person events and consultations which are also available within the membership.
Membership to the Upward Spiral Professionals, at whichever level of membership, is aimed at the hungry, proactive and caring accounting firm in the UK, irrespective of their size and irrespective of their location.
USP Digital Access
Online Membership
The Upward Spiral Membership is more comprehensive than solely access to the USP Vault alone but to meet demand, I am delighted to offer our Online Membership access through either the USP Vault Only package and the USP Remote Access Package.
The USP Vault itself is the knowledgebase and is available to all members of the Upward Spiral Professionals. The content in The Vault serves the accounting profession in the UK and is available to firms based nationally.
The USP Vault gives your organisation unlimited access to my vault of propriety online training content (approx. £100k of practice development training if purchased for in-person delivery).
For Firms Who Aspire Maximum Growth
For accounting firms who aspire to achieve maximum practice growth, beyond the online packages, there is an upward level within the USP Membership available to firms and organisations as they expand into six or seven-figure practices.
Aimed at UK accounting firms, the Full membership option include in-person consulting with me, access to our Expert Partners, Postcode Exclusivity and inclusion at in-person events.
Two levels of membership are available via the website here. However, Full membership level is exclusively available with more emphasis on a one to one consultation lead basis and can be discussed with Martin directly via the email address below.
For more details and to start a conversation about your firm's needs and membership options, please contact Martin Bissett directly at martin@upwardspiralpartnership.co.uk
Is USP Right for Your Firm?
Aspire and achieve practice growth
Does your firm want to be affiliated with a young, hungry, yet well-established network?
Do you want unlimited access to over 250+ resources collated over 20 + years of my professional expertise in the accounting profession?
Do you want exponential growth in your firm to achieve six-seven figures?
Do you want to be the best proactive and caring accounting firm and be a true advisor who cares about their clients?
Do you want to surround yourself with like-minded professionals and share expertise and be part of a vibrant referral network cultivated between member firms?
Do you want on-demand advice from Martin Bissett, advisor to accounting firms and practices spanning over 20+ years so your firm doesn't make the same mistakes of other firms gone before you?
Do you want to do the very best for your clients and stop relying on referrals and compliance work?
If you answered yes to those questions, then the USP Membership is right for your firm.
Do you want unlimited access to over 250+ resources collated over 20 + years of my professional expertise in the accounting profession?
Do you want exponential growth in your firm to achieve six-seven figures?
Do you want to be the best proactive and caring accounting firm and be a true advisor who cares about their clients?
Do you want to surround yourself with like-minded professionals and share expertise and be part of a vibrant referral network cultivated between member firms?
Do you want on-demand advice from Martin Bissett, advisor to accounting firms and practices spanning over 20+ years so your firm doesn't make the same mistakes of other firms gone before you?
Do you want to do the very best for your clients and stop relying on referrals and compliance work?
If you answered yes to those questions, then the USP Membership is right for your firm.
Invest in Your Firm
The Upward Spiral Professionals Community will give you what your firm needs to invest in its future growth and success. Progress your firm to larger average fees and client engagements, gaining self-belief and strength from a solid support system.
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Approach referral sources in a new way and win new business in the short term
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Never again suffer from cashflow issues by using this proven content immediately and see a huge ROI in the short term
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Invest in your firm's success and be the proactive and caring firm making a difference to your client's lives
Meet Martin Bissett
Founder of USP
Martin Bissett is the founder of the Upward Spiral Partnership (USP), the international consulting firm that specialises in enabling the accounting profession to win higher-end clients, create leaders from their ranks and save lives.
His professional purpose is to alert the accounting profession to the profound outcomes that their advisory expertise can create in the lives of their clients.
At the same time, he also alerts the accounting profession to the profound difficulties that can arise in the lives of their clients when they choose not to educate their clients about the impact that their advisory expertise can have.
The Upward Spiral Partnership is the 4th business Martin has played a key role in building and the first of his own.
In the first 5 years of USP, Martin has:
- Been engaged/retained by 4 of the World's Top 10 Accounting associations and 6 of the Top 10 in the UK.
- Authored 9 books including Passport to Partnership, content from which has been adopted into the curriculum of AAT Level 3 courses, and taught in selected UK colleges and US CPA Societies.
- Been retained by Accountingweb as a judge of their prestigious practice excellence awards for three years in a row.
- Been highlighted as ‘one to watch’ in AccountingToday’s Top 100 Most Influential countdown for 2 years running.
- Spoken on 4 continents.
- Created several trademarked items of intellectual property including the ACCOUNTS™ system and ‘Martin’s Relationship Pricing™’ Model.
- Written for several professional publications including AccountingToday, AccountingWeb, CPA Practice Advisor and Chartered One.
- Sat on many international expert panels and guested on professional podcasts in the US, UK, and Australia.
- Sits on a parliamentary steering committee tasked with bringing advisory services to the fore in the accounting profession.
The outcome of Martin’s work is profitable new business for the practices he is engaged by, alongside the fine-tuning of teams of partners and emerging leaders who can develop new business by increasing their commercial awareness for themselves, without significant ongoing third party assistance.
Previously, Martin served 10 years as a director (appointed at age 26) on the board of a marketing consultancy firm serving the accounting profession. There, he held the responsibility for the growth of the client base including six of the U.K.’s top 30 accountancy firms.
He now coaches, mentors, speaks, trains and consults with accounting firms worldwide.
In total, he has worked with over 1800 firms of accountants and found it unnecessary to keep track of his contributions to the new business growth of those firms once it surpassed £500m collectively.
Upward Spiral Professionals Worldwide
USP Regions for Firms Based Outside of the UK
Frequently Asked Questions
What Your Firm Needs to Know
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Is there a limit on the size of firm who can join the USP membership?
USP has no preference on the size of firm, service line offering and length of time in practice. It cares about having a membership that understands that you do well in practice and business by doing right by the client. It wants a group of professionals who reduce the stress caused to SMEs by their own lack of financial education.
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Is the USP Vault the right investment for our firm?
Does your firm want to be affiliated with a young, hungry, yet well-established network?
Do you want unlimited access to over 250+ resources collated over 20 + years of my professional expertise in the accounting profession?
Do you want exponential growth in your firm to achieve six-seven figures?
Do you want to be the best proactive and caring accounting firm and be a true advisor who cares about their clients?
Do you want to surround yourself with like-minded professionals and share expertise and be part of a vibrant referral network cultivated between member firms?
Do you want on-demand advice from Martin Bissett, advisor to accounting firms and practices spanning over 20+ years so your firm doesn't make the same mistakes of other firms gone before you?
Do you want to do the very best for your clients and stop relying on referrals and compliance work?
If you answered yes to those questions, then the USP Remote Access Package is right for your firm. -
How can I find out more about the Full membership?
To find out more about the higher membership tier levels, please contact me, Martin Bissett at martin@upwardspiralprofessionals.co.uk and let's start a conversation.
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Can I buy the courses individually?
Yes! You can buy the courses individually.
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Our firm is not based in the UK, which regions are available for non-UK firms to join?
Regions will be available very soon in South Africa, Europe and Australia. The links to these regions can be found at the bottom of this page to click through for more information.