by Chris Bryant | Sep 27, 2014 | Industry News, magento, online store, Uncategorized, woocommerce, wordpress backup, wordpress hacking
It’s midday and we’ve been noticing some abnormal activity on a client website the past few hours. The website is “running hot”, an internal reference we use, referring to the fact it’s being severely throttled because it’s...
by Chris Bryant | Sep 26, 2014 | Industry News, magento, online store, Uncategorized, web hosting, woocommerce, wordpress
The pains of hosting an ecommerce store are not as straightforward as we’d like them to be, and sometimes the solution is not quite what you’d expect. In this article we explore these challenges. So you’ve got a brand new online store, or you could...
by Chris Bryant | Sep 22, 2014 | Industry News, online store, Uncategorized
Run by three former investment bankers, BeerBud.com.au makes craft beer available online. Andy Williamson, 27, Alex Gale, 30, and Mark Woollcott, 35, all held high-paying positions at investment firm CMB Capital and all three loved trying different beer rather than...
by Chris Bryant | Sep 19, 2014 | Industry News, online store, Uncategorized
After a brief lull, Australians are back to shopping online again. The NAB Online Retail Sales Index estimates digital sales in Australia at $15.6 billion for the year to July 2014, representing annual growth of 8.6%. This places online shopping at 6.6% of traditional...
by Chris Bryant | Aug 18, 2014 | Industry News, online store, Uncategorized, woocommerce, woothemes, wordpress
OPMC’s favourite e-commerce platform, WooTheme’s WooCommerce WordPress plugin, has hit the 4 million downloads mark. The announcement comes as the company prepares to release WooCommerce 2.2 later this quarter. WooCommerce, which is free to download and...
by Chris Bryant | Aug 11, 2014 | Industry News, online store, Uncategorized
You may not know who sisters Sali and Julie Stevanja are, but you should be listening to their business advice. Why? Because their e-commerce store Stylerunner, which the siblings started in 2012, has achieved almost 600% year-on-year growth and their social media...
