Hey!
I’m Jonty Kora
Enhanced eCommerce Integration
Google Tag Manager Specialist
GA4 & PPC Tagging
Standard & Advanced Website Tracking
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.
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
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
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
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
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