Hey!

I’m Jonty Kora

Enhanced eCommerce Integration
Google Tag Manager Specialist
GA4 & PPC Tagging
Standard & Advanced Website Tracking
Remote, South Africa

About me

I’m a digital marketer by day and a jiu-jitsu practitioner by night.

 

When I’m not practicing armbars and berimbolos, you’ll find me scrutinising data and analysing results reported across various advertising tools, including Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Meta, LinkedIn, and more.

A technical marketer passionate about the ‘boring’ side of digital.

My passion lies in solving complex tracking queries and exploring new ways to reduce customer drop-off and pain-points on websites.

I’ve learned that enhancing users’ online browsing experiences leads to better checkout completion rates and fewer cart abandonments. By refining the customer checkout journey leads to improved online growth and increases business bottom-line metrics.

With my love of data, coupled with my newfound interest in e-commerce sales forecasting, I’ve learnt to look beyond traditional analytics. I can now set performance benchmarks from the outset and scale advertising to achieve higher returns on marketing investments.

My versatile skillset ranges from Advanced Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, CRO, PPC and more.

My Approach To Marketing

Experience

Digital Analyst

The Rank Group

June 2024 – Present

Specialising in tracking and tagging within the Digital team at a leading UK gaming company. 

 

Career highlights:

 

Successfully audited complex data integrations across sports, bingo, and casino brands. Created pretty LookerStudio dashboards to analyse behaviour insights, including forecasted deposit revenue losses from customer drop-offs.

For 2024, x2 major casino brands have experienced a combined estimated revenue loss of £43.07M+, caused by customer journey issues ranging from new registrations to login failures and successful account recoveries for forgotten password/username.

Recommended solutions to enhance customer experience needed to scale advertising in order to drive higher returns on marketing investments.

Google Analytics Consultant

VisualSoft

Oct 2021 – May 2024

Consulted for a UK-based e-commerce platform, where I oversaw and manage technical migrations from GA3 to GA4 for a platform generating over £1 billion in revenue.

 

Career highlights:

 

GA3 to GA4 Migration

 

My expertise in Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics played a crucial role in the successful migration of all clients on the platform from GA3 to GA4, a full year ahead of Google’s global rollout deadline. This involved leading Phase 1, 2, and 3 GA4 migration efforts and developing technical custom specifications for both GTM (dataLayer) and gtag.js integrations.

This accomplishment involved beating the timelines of competitor platforms, like Shopify, by offering retailers enhanced tracking functionalities and insights as built-in features without additional development costs or the need for premium plugins. These tracking events included purchase, begin checkout, payment method, shipping tier, login, sign up, website errors, and more.

 

Website Error Tracking

 

After successfully implementing website error tracking, the resulting reports significantly improved the online shopping experience by pinpointing errors triggered by users.These included issues with checkout and user input fields, such as incorrect email addresses, password fields, telephone numbers, delivery information, etc.

This immediately provided context for understanding customer drop-offs and enabled all retailers on the platform to improve the checkout journey by running experiments (A/B tests), thereby increasing checkout completion rates and revenue.

Nominated for and won the ‘Innovation Award’ 2024.

Google Analytics Consultant

Hollywoodbets Africa
Jun 2021 – Aug 2021
Career highlights:

 

Implement enhanced e-Commerce analytics for a leading South African sportsbook company. Successfully tracked customers’ online deposits across multiple sub-domains, including casino, sports, and lottery betting websites.

This enabled the company to gain valuable insights into their online operations and customer behaviour.

 

Senior Paid Search Specialist

CBR Marketing Solutions
Mar 2020 – May 2021
Career highlights:

 

Successfully deployed standard and enhanced eCommerce tracking through Google Tag Manager across multiple eCommerce and non-eCommerce websites.

Managed and optimised large-scale Google Ad campaigns with budgets over R1M+.

PPC Campaign & SEO Manager

BrandHeart Digital Marketing
Jul 2018 – Feb 2020
Career highlights:

 

I learned a variety of front-end marketing skills and tools, including Google AdWords, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager and more.

These skills were instrumental in helping SMEs clients from different industries, generate more sales from marketing efforts, including both eCommerce and non-eCommerce websites.

Junior Web Developer

Red Calabash
Sep 2017 – Jul 2018
Career highlights:

 

Developed a range of technical skills that have enabled me to design, develop, and maintain websites using popular themes such as Shopify, WordPress, Magento, and others.

 

I’ve gotten to work with some amazing brands!

Education & SKills

Skills

  • Google Tag Manager
  • Google Analytics
  • Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO)
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Protocols
  • Client-Side and Server-Side Tagging
  • Google BigQuery & LookerStudio
  • SEO, PPC, Email
  • Consent Tracking (OneTrust, Google Consent Mode)
  • CMS (WordPress, Shopify, Magento etc)

JavaScript for Google Tag Manager

Analytics Mania

March 2024 – Current

Digital Analytics Implementation (DAi) Program

OptimizeSmart
Jun 2021 – Current

Google Analytics 4 Course

Analytics Mania
March 2022 – Current

Intermediate/Advanced GTM Course

Analytics Mania
Nov 2021 – Jan 2022

Digital Marketing Certificate

Red & Yellow Creative School of Business
Jun 2017 – Sept 2017

Bachelor of Arts Corporate Communication

Varsity College
Jan 2012 – Dec 2014

References

Jonty joined Visualsoft as a CRO Executive and he performed this role exceptionally well, delivering fantastic results for all his clients.

 

What made Jonty really stand out was his technical knowledge and ability. Jonty was a key player in the migration from GA3 to GA4, including creating technical specs for gtag and GTM integrations.

After spending the past year working alongside Jonty, I watched him take the reins on multiple projects because Jonty is a self-starter and can turn his hand at anything he puts his mind to. If you’re looking for a yes-man Jonty is not that, he will respectfully challenge in the quest for obtaining quality data.

In addition to all that, it was a pleasure to have Jonty in the team, reminding us in the UK that the sun still exists.

Every team needs a Jonty.

 

— Heather Louise
Head of CRO at VisualSoft Ltd

Jonty was employed as our Campaign Manager at BrandHeart Digital Marketing for almost 2 years. During this time he managed our clients' Google and social media campaigns and really took them to a new level of performance & results.

 

Jonty is one of those self starters and has an attitude of continuous learning. He is a problem solver of note and steps up to any challenge put in front of him. He can be trusted to get on with his responsibilities and he often took the lead in recommending new strategies to get better performance out of our client’s budgets.

Jonty went the extra mile and working late or over weekends was something he did of his own accord.

We were sad to lose Jonty to a new opportunity in Jozi and we know he’ll make the best of anything he puts his mind to. Any employer would benefit from his in depth understanding of digital marketing – and particularly Google Ads.

 

— Charlene Udal
Director at Brand Heart Digital Marketing

Jonty is an extremely passionate and talented digital marketer with a wide-ranging skill set.

 

Jonty excels in his website tracking capabilities and has a deep knowledge of e-commerce tracking. Jonty is dependable and a positive member of any team and someone who I learned so much from during my time working with him.

Jonty is never content with where his knowledge or abilities are at and he is constantly learning and enhancing his craft. Any business or agency would be lucky to work with him.

 

— Nathan Carstens
Product Marketing Manager at New Silver

An all-round data/results-driven Google Ads specialist who also uses advanced data collection and segmentation techniques to ensure maximum returns on ad spend.

 

Highly skilled in Google Ads, Google Analytics, Bing Ads, e-commerce marketing, and enhanced e-commerce tracking. Jonty is naturally equipped with an amazing work ethic which makes him a pleasure to work with.

A natural leader, always willing to help and mentor those around him.

 

— Duduza Moyo
Head of Search Engine Marketing at CBR Marketing Solutions

Jonty Kora is fun to work with.

 

He is a Proactive, Passionate & A Result Driven Digital Specialist. Working with him is insightful and always a pleasure. Need eCom tracking? Or a killer Google Ads strategy, He has the skills to conceptualise and effectively execute.

 

— Isaac Kondowe
SEO Manager at Online Marketing Gurus