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how to create an upward spiral

will you be forged in fire or flutter away like ash?

by martin bissett
passport to partnership

unhappy and difficult clients help our firms to improve our client management skills and present opportunities to refine our leadership skills.

more on the passport to partnership: the dna of a practice leader | surviving vs. thriving | what does the next generation of practice leaders face? | 6 keys to the perfect proposal | what conversion really means for partners | 12 ways to determine your competence | passport to partnership: new research shows wide gap between partners and partners-to-be

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it is tough for us to build a successful firm without difficult clients or internal personnel issues in order to provide learning experiences for us to build a robust and commercially successful infrastructure.
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marketing & sales

your perception vs. your client’s reality

avoid a funhouse mirror effect.

by martin bissett
business development on a budget

there used to be an old exercise used in training sessions about customer relations or selling or leadership that went like this. the trainer would ask the group to think about the color green. a few seconds later he would ask them what type of green they were thinking of, and of course there would be many variations of green.

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the point is that, as the saying goes, perception is reality. whatever each person perceived as green, that would be the reality for them – but it would be different for each person in the room.
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do you deliver on your website’s promises?

if not, undercharging is often the cause.

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business development on a budget

there’s an overall sameness to the majority of accounting firm websites, and typically they make a lot of promises – promises like

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we’re big enough to cope and small enough to care, or
we are proactive, or
we’re not just bean counters, or
we have your best interests at heart, or
your business is our business.

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the dna of a practice leader

a lesson in customer service and reputation.

by martin bissett
passport to partnership

in order to become a commercially aware practice leader, we need to understand the dna of leadership.

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any woman or man leading an accounting firm, who chooses to overcome each operational or client challenge as it if their future depended on it, will not only succeed in practice but will become capable of delivering advisory value to their clients unmatched by their competitors, thus achieving true differentiation.
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lowballing: how to stop under-pricing yourself

bonus checklist: 10 questions to help you reconsider your prices.

by martin bissett
business development on a budget

undercharging – or lowballing as it’s also called – is the scourge of the profession. it has always been present, and unfortunately, it will probably be with us for the foreseeable future.

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undercharging is directly related to fear – fear of rejection.
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surviving vs. thriving

what commercial awareness really means. plus 5 reasons firms don’t thrive … and how to solve them.

by martin bissett
passport to partnership

a big concern in recent years has been how the incoming partners will purchase equity or fund the capital account and exit of a retiring partner.

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much has been written that examines the mathematical complexities of this topic but the bottom line is simple. would-be partners in the age demographic of 28-42 are part of a generation who are already heavily borrowed in the form of credit card debt, mortgage debt and other forms of personal loans.
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appraise your prospects

after evaluation comes setting deadlines.

by martin bissett
business development on a budget

after you have listed business prospects, then what? it’s time for a good hard look at those prospects, and an honest appraisal of their value.

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how long do you think each prospective client will take to make a decision to move to your firm or not? is it a month? six months? a year or more? this information is the next filter you will use to prioritize your time and efforts.
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it’s not the challenge, it’s your response

bonus checklist: 5 questions for self-evaluation.

by martin bissett
passport to partnership

when challenges come our way, regardless of what shape or form they arrive in, our world seems to lose a bit of brightness, there’s a little knot in the gut and a sense of peace broken.

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the question is, if we were watching our own responses to these trials, would we appoint ourselves as the next partner of the firm?

let’s examine 30 checkpoints to test your own, or your staffers’ abilities, to overcome challenges.
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the science of pipelines

why a list is not the same thing.

by martin bissett
business development on a budget

i’ve taken many accounting firm partners through this process, and it’s quite common for them to balk a little at the pipeline idea when they see the amount of work involved.

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they see it as just another call on their time when they already have far too much to do, and they ask me why they can’t just write down a list of prospects and go to work on them.

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why hitting your numbers isn’t enough

are your projections sending your firm backward?

by martin bissett
passport to partnership

how do you react to challenges?

more on the passport to partnership: what does the next generation of practice leaders face? | commitment: a cautionary tale | how to build your pipeline | 6 keys to the perfect proposal | communication can’t be overrated | how to read your firm’s cultural blueprint

ask yourself and answer these questions when considering the current and future “challenges” behaviors that you’ll employ.
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do you have a pipeline or just a list?

bonus checklist: 5 points for grading prospects.

by martin bissett
business development on a budget

so you’ve done all the work to get yourself composed and prepared to go out and generate new opportunities, find new business and new clients. now what? how will you know who to contact for the first step?

answer: your pipeline.

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many partners think they have a pipeline, but they don’t. what they actually have is just a list of prospects they’ve

met with,
would like to meet with or
have worked with in the past.

leadership

what does the next generation of practice leaders face?

“now, more than ever before firms need to be clear regarding their roi proposition to clients.”

by martin bissett
passport to partnership

the passport to partnership study collated a number of responses in a conversational style. the need for professionals who can remain calm in the storm is showcased below and was repeated many times in various different ways.

more on the passport to partnership: how to build your pipeline | businesses place value on expertise | communication: it’s not about you | sailing through the seven c’s to partnership

the expert council
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leadership

inspiration is good. but consistency always wins.

yes, even during busy season.

by martin bissett
business development on a budget

you may be asking yourself how you will know when you are successful in your selling efforts. many people have asked me that, but it’s the wrong question because firms have different goals.

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some want to simply tick over and replace the clients they lose, some want to grow exponentially, some want steady and consistent growth they can measure and monitor. so there is no one definition of success. but no matter what yours is, you will never attain it if you are inconsistent in your process of winning new business.
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he is the founder of the upward spiral partnership ltd., the uk-based consulting firm that specializes in the implementation of professional selling and leadership skills in the next generation of accounting professionals.

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previously, martin served ten years on the board of directors of the uk’s leading provider of high-quality new business appointments for accountancy firms. there, he held the responsibility for the nurture and organic growth of the organization’s new client base, including six of the uk’s top 30 firms of accountants.

martin became fascinated by the apparent juxtaposition of partners not vocalizing what they were looking for in terms of an accomplished skill set from their potential future partners and their managers not asking to discover what that skill set included, despite wanting to reach that very position. in a profession with a supposed “succession crisis” on the horizon, this apparent stand-off struck him as curious.

this has led upward spiral partnership to personally interview several hundred partners and managers in the us and uk to learn what partners are looking for and how the managers see their own future in the firm. there are, of course, firms that have addressed this issue already, and their initiatives have also been captured.

the results of the research, including both the consensus and the exceptions to the general opinion, is called “passport to partnership.” this study provides the highlights of each factor that the majority of partners interviewed use as their criteria when evaluating whether someone in their organization can make it to the top.

as a result of the combination of his experience, intellectual property, and this proprietary research, martin now consults with accounting firms in the uk, europe, and the usa to support them in their transition through to the next stage of their development and growth.

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