Sharp Graphics

sharpegraphics.co.uk is number five on the top twenty ratings page at https://gibli.com/top-20 today. Customer ratings give them top scores 100% for Ethics, Lovability and the Likelihood of Customer Return.

Their products get straight 100% top scores right across the five questions; Value for Money, Quality, Innovation, Customer Service and Service Speed.

From the text comments left by their users they are good at interpreting vague customer requirements and put great effort into detail and quality.

Steve Sharp went freelance in 1986 and now works from his studio on the North Essex coast overlooking the Blackwater Estuary. His work includes graphic design, architectural illustrations, cartoons, caricatures, marine, animal and advertising.

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Solopress the Printer Ratings

Solopress.com, based in Stock Road in Southend on Sea in Essex, is number 4 on https://gibli.com/top-20 today. They get an excellent 80.7% overall rating and 74% supplier and 94% product ratings.

Their customers give them excellent scores for Ethics 80% and rate the chances of using them again as 85%.

However they rate Solopress’s products considerably higher with 100% ratings for Value for Money, Quality, Customer Service and Service Speed.

Andy Smith and Aron Priest set up Solopress in 1999 after realising there was a gap in the UK market for a printer which offered fast turnaround times and a cost-effective full colour service.

Solopress we have gone to great lengths to source and offer products that are environmentally friendly and have controls in place to ensure their products and work have minimal impact on the environment.

They now have over 150 staff working hard to keep their thousands of customers happy.

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A Hosting Company (United Hosting) is No 3 for Client Ratings Today

Unitedhosting.co.uk is no 3 on https://gibli.com/top-20 today with an astonishing 89% customer rating. They get top marks 100% for both Lovability and the Likelihood of Customer Return.

Their hosting products get incredibly good straight maximums 100% scores for Value for Money, Quality, Customer Service and Service Speed.

United Hosting provide a wide variety of different hosting packages to suit client needs, guarantee 100% uptime and their datacentre uses 100% green renewable energy.

Their primary UK datacentre is “Centro” in Hemel Hempstead, just north of London and Centro is owned and operated by NTT (who bought Gyron Internet) and energy is obtained from renewable sources.

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The Sharks and the Stars of the Business World

Businesses need help in finding good suppliers so they can make more money.

There are both sharks and stars out there and it is critical to know the difference.

Gibli.com is a new way for business people to help each other by rating their suppliers,

thereby showing which suppliers to work with and which to avoid.

Membership is free and business websites or web directory listings are used to identify suppliers.

Please come and register at http://gibli.com

Circles of Excellence

If you have a business you probably spend quite a lot of time marketing. However on social sites like Twitter the intensity of thousands of people all shouting ‘We make ThingMiJigs, buy my ThingMiJigs can get a bit too much at some times and sound more like noise that anything useful.
I think it would be a lot more polite and helpful to instead to shout Box Co supplies us and they are brilliant’.
It’s more much more interesting and might even help someone find a good source of ThingMiJigs boxes. Then the Box Co might shout that Cardboard Co supplied them with great quality cardboard for their boxes.
Then Cardboard Co might shout that Gizmo Co supplied them with excellent cardboard cutting machinery.
Then Gizmo Co might shout that they got the ThingMiJigs for their Gizmo machinery from you and they were very pleased with them.
To me this approach seems much more helpful and polite. It develops circles of excellence which we can trust and it’s the concept behind http://gibli.com/

Choosing the right business supplier

One of the main challenges faced by small businesses is finding the right suppliers. After all a good supplier can help you make money but a bad one will take money away from you.

Many people think that a supplier’s website and the appearance and professionalism of its staff will show the difference between the good and the bad.

However from personal experience and from the research we’ve conducted we can see that you can get good businesses with poor websites and untidy staff just as you can get bad suppliers with good websites and smart staff.

Therefore we conclude that the only way to tell is to use the experience of other businesses to guide you. If lots of them say say a supplier is good; most likely it is.

To solve this problem we constructed a web-based service where business people can rate their suppliers. Its at http://gibli.com and it allows users to rate both the supplier and their products or services.

The resulting scores are shown as a percentage figure for each supplier and each product or service. Some example data is shown on the Top 20 page at https://gibli.com/top-20 but the real strength of the service will be the search functionality. So a search for ‘design’ will show both Designers and Design services.

From this information a small business looking for a designer can chose which supplier is best for their purposes.