Christopher Hughes on how mintWP helped small businesses during the pandemic

Posted by UBERANT EDITORIAL on December 15th, 2020

The COVID-19 virus has been tough on businesses, especially those who operate out of brick and mortar locations. During this time, many have worked to migrate online to take takeout orders, sell their merchandise to customers remotely, and stay relevant to their customer base. Christopher Hughes, the founder mintWP and RedLettuce, has helped these businesses create an online presence, cope with traffic, and sustain through the uncertainty of COVID-19.

mintWP, which helps small to medium-sized eCommerce businesses scale up in times of need. Many online stores buckled under the weight of all the new online traffic as everyone under lockdown looked at other ways to shop.

Starting and sustaining an e-commerce business can be quite challenging. Through mintWP, Christopher and his team have helped numerous businesses cope with challenges during the pandemic. From creating, upgrading, and maintaining WordPress websites, to technical support and guidance, Christopher helped several businesses to deal with the massive increase in traffic. Christopher explained, “With the whole world in an indefinite lockdown, e-commerce experienced a huge increase in traffic and transactions. We did our best to help e-commerce businesses at this crucial juncture.”

This isn’t Christopher’s first success at business. Having founded a popular hosting company back in 1997, he sold it and the 50,000 sites it hosted to a UK leading hosting company. Since then he has gone on to start up several more popular online businesses.

Hughes has countless success stories from small businesses during the COVID-19 crisis. In a time when the world needed to stand together in solidarity, Christopher and his team worked around the clock to ensure that e-commerce businesses stood firm. Together, services like mintWP and Red Lettuce can help both customers and business owners flourish during the pandemic and beyond.