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Marketing Experiments: Design Tests and Measure Results
3 students

Marketing Experiments: Design Tests and Measure Results

Build testable hypotheses, choose meaningful metrics and interpret uncertain results before scaling a marketing idea.
Created byDr. Law Payne
Last updated 11/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Turn a marketing idea into a testable hypothesis.
  • Choose metrics, a comparison group and a practical test design.
  • Interpret uncertain results and distinguish a signal from noise.
  • Write an experiment brief with a clear decision rule.

Course content

2 sections • 10 lectures • 1h 50m total length
  • The Decision and the First Useful Result10:40

    Turn the Maplebridge headline question into a testable hypothesis. Use the worksheet to specify the proposed change, its mechanism, and what evidence would challenge it.

  • Hypotheses in Practice11:52

    Specify the headline contrast, eligibility, assignment, purchase window, and validity checks. Use the Hypotheses Worksheet to document what would invalidate the comparison.

  • Metrics and the Evidence Behind It10:50

    Calculate absolute and relative changes in clicks and purchases. Use the Metrics Worksheet to distinguish the primary outcome from diagnostic and protective measures.

  • Comparison Without Hidden Assumptions11:01

    Compare before-and-after, device-based, and concurrent randomized designs. Use the Comparison Design Worksheet to document alternative explanations and implementation checks.

  • The Foundation Case and Your First Deliverable11:06

    Build a Maplebridge experiment brief with a clear decision, outcome, owner, and launch prerequisites. Use the Foundation Experiment Brief Worksheet to draft your plan.

Requirements

  • No specialist qualification or paid software is required. Bring a suitable work example or use the course case exercises.

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.


Everyone likes the campaign idea. The numbers move after launch. Before you spend more, can you tell what changed and whether the campaign caused it?


I’m Dr. Law Payne. My master’s degree in Business shapes how I approach these decisions. I designed this course for marketers, founders, growth teams and consultants who want to make a practical recommendation they can explain to a team.


Across ten lectures in two sections, you’ll learn to set hypotheses, choose comparison groups and interpret uncertain test results. In the foundations section, you’ll work through the evidence behind the first decision. The applied section gives you a second case with a different constraint, so you can see where the same reasoning holds and where the decision needs to change.


I designed the case exercises to give you a decision to make before you see the worked reasoning. In the final workshop, you’ll put the work together into an experiment brief with a hypothesis, metric, comparison and decision rule Write down which evidence supports your recommendation, where your assumptions might be wrong, and what you would check before acting.


Bring one decision you’re responsible for at work. Start with the first lecture, then use the case and workshop to practise explaining your recommendation in plain language. Enroll if you want a way to take the next decision from an open discussion to a concrete plan you can share with your team.

Who this course is for:

  • Marketers, founders, growth teams and consultants