Mat O'Connor

Mat O'Connor

Founder at Actuate Digital

About Mat O'Connor

Mat trained as an actor before pivoting into eCommerce, founding Actuate in 2014. Turns out understanding why people make decisions is just as useful in a CRO audit as it is on stage.

He's spent 15 years working with ambitious retailers across Shopify, Magento, and Adobe Commerce, and has an annoying habit of spotting what's wrong with your site before you've finished explaining the problem.

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Articles by Mat O'Connor

How To Know Your SEO Is Working  - eCommerce insights from Actuate Digital Ecommerce

How To Know Your SEO Is Working 

By Mat O'Connor 8 Min Read

How To Know Your SEO Is Working SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is a multi-billion pound industry with a seemingly endless supply of “experts” vying for your business. Whether you’ve signed on the dotted line and engaged one of the…

Conquering eCommerce Conversion Rates - eCommerce insights from Actuate Digital Ecommerce

Conquering eCommerce Conversion Rates

By Mat O'Connor 4 Min Read

Conquering eCommerce Conversion Rates Are you besieged continuously with three-letter acronyms and wish for once that someone would explain the link between SEO, CTR, CRO and KPI’s? Luckily Actuate is here to help your navigate the internet marketing highway and…

Understanding The Total Cost of Ownership For Your E- Commerce Website - eCommerce insights from Actuate Digital Ecommerce

Understanding The Total Cost of Ownership For Your E- Commerce Website

By Mat O'Connor 4 Min Read

Let’s face it; price is usually a leading factor in making a business decision, and choosing your next e- commerce solution is no different. Unfortunately, not all eCommerce solutions are built equally with many coming with hidden costs or caveats…

Your eCommerce Guide to Valentine's Day - eCommerce insights from Actuate Digital Ecommerce

Your eCommerce Guide to Valentine’s Day

By Mat O'Connor 3 Min Read

We’re heading into a lockdown Valentine’s Day because unfortunately not only LOVE is in the air! For eCommerce sites, there is a silver lining with couples looking for Valentine’s Day gifts online instead of heading to the supermarkets. But what…

SEO Jargon Buster (Additions) Part 2 - eCommerce insights from Actuate Digital Digital Strategy

SEO Jargon Buster (Additions) Part 2

By Mat O'Connor 3 Min Read

Deepen Your SEO Knowledge Homepage or Home Page The index page of a website which is the initial page seen when visiting the domain name of a website without any additional paths or query strings. HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure,…

Free Social Media Content Calendar for 2021 - eCommerce insights from Actuate Digital Social Media

Free Social Media Content Calendar for 2021

By Mat O'Connor 5 Min Read

From cats to hamburgers and hugs to paperclips… …there is a day of the year for all of them! So when it comes to creating content for your social media accounts, company blog or website, don’t stress and worry about…

SEO Jargon Buster (Additions) - eCommerce insights from Actuate Digital Digital Strategy

SEO Jargon Buster (Additions)

By Mat O'Connor 2 Min Read

Understand SEO Basics Above The Fold Content that appears when your website loads without the need for scrolling. It’s often believed that this content has a high chance of converting as people will always see it compared to content lower…

Avoiding Q1 Sales Slumps at your eCommerce Store - eCommerce insights from Actuate Digital Insights

Avoiding Q1 Sales Slumps at your eCommerce Store

By Mat O'Connor 3 Min Read

Kick start the new year January and February are statistically the slowest months for eCommerce sales around the world, and the United Kingdom is no different. After the busy festive shopping period, retailers feel the hit of dwindling sales as…

Aero Commerce x Actuate = A Winning Combination - eCommerce insights from Actuate Digital News

Aero Commerce x Actuate = A Winning Combination

By Mat O'Connor 3 Min Read

Aero Commerce x Actuate = A Winning Combination There’s a new eCommerce platform in town, and refreshingly it’s designed with the ever-evolving needs of retailers in mind! It’s no secret that when it comes to choosing an online shopping platform…