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title: Shift4Shop eCommerce Blog | Sean McCarthy
description: Sean is the Senior Content Marketing Manager at Lucky Orange, a leading CRO toolkit serving over 250,000 websites around the world. He helps businesses of all sizes better understand the role of a great website in the customer journey.
---
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# Sean McCarthy
Sean is the Senior Content Marketing Manager at Lucky Orange, a leading CRO toolkit serving over 250,000 websites around the world. He helps businesses of all sizes better understand the role of a great website in the customer journey.
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[http://www.luckyorange.com/ ](http://www.luckyorange.com/)
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## [A Quick Start Guide to Using Heatmaps For eCommerce](https://blog.shift4shop.com/heatmap-quick-start-guide)
By [Sean McCarthy](https://blog.shift4shop.com/author/sean-mccarthy) [March 19, 2021](https://blog.shift4shop.com/heatmap-quick-start-guide) [0 Comments](https://blog.shift4shop.com/heatmap-quick-start-guide#comments-listing)
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All too often, websites are built on a series of assumptions, eCommerce platform limitations and best guesses. No matter how you arrived at your current website, it's likely there is at least one element that drives you crazy or that makes you less confident you're operating at 100% effectiveness. Dynamic heatmaps are a powerful tool to help illustrate what’s actually happening on your website.
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