

Experiment Nation: The Podcast
Rommil Santiago's Experiment Nation
Every week we share:
- Interviews with the Best Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) professionals and Experimenters from around the world
- Conference sessions / Tutorials
Recent recognition:
- Top 10% of most followed Podcasts on Spotify
- Interviews with the Best Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) professionals and Experimenters from around the world
- Conference sessions / Tutorials
Recent recognition:
- Top 10% of most followed Podcasts on Spotify
Episodes
Mentioned books

Mar 12, 2021 • 23min
CR-No: How to manage stakeholders and HiPPOs
In this episode, our panel discusses how to manage stakeholders and HiPPOs. What do we do with them when they don't agree with our results? How do we get ahead of issues?
On the panel:
Shiva Manjunath
Eddie Aguilar
Kenya Davis
Siobhan Solberg

Mar 1, 2021 • 38min
Adventures in Experimentation: The importance of the voice of customer to conversion optimization - as well as to the entire business
Eden and Positive John speak about how recording your sessions with clients helps reduce the need for taking notes, how qualitative research is key to not just CRO but for all things business, and how no one likes pop-up surveys except for Positive John.
Useful resources mentioned in the episode: https://www.notion.so/User-Psych-framework-applied-on-LinkedIn-s-conversion-funnel-3bf3cdfc4aa54c2c9191f403157ed317

Feb 22, 2021 • 7min
Audio version: Widerfunnel’s Chris Goward on how Experimenters need to focus less on the tools and more on strategy
This is the audio version of our recent interview with Widerfunnel’s Chris Goward.

Feb 19, 2021 • 26min
Product Experimentation: Aligning the need to deliver and the need to learn with OKRs
Jaya and Sid explore:
What does a good product experiment look like
Aligning the need to deliver and the need to learn with OKRs
Why aren’t companies adopting the practice

Feb 5, 2021 • 24min
CR-No: Balancing between optimizing the entire customer journey vs. just the website
On today’s panel, we have
Siobhan Solberg from Raze
Shiva Manjunath from Gartner
Kenya Davis from Evolytics
Eddie Aguilar from Circle media labs
In this episode the panel discusses:
Balancing between optimizing the entire funnel vs focusing only on the website
Bringing segmentation into the mix
Their beef with Google optimize

Jan 30, 2021 • 22min
What you need to know about SEO Experimentation
On today's episode, we interview Twilio's Justin Coons and talk about:
Not only can you run experiments for SEO, but you also should
Which is better, short-form content or long-form content
What metrics to optimize for when running SEO Experiments

Jan 24, 2021 • 23min
Point/Counterpoint - Exploring different experiment prioritization frameworks
On today's episode of Point/Counterpoint, Trish leads Patrick and Marion through a discussion about: Their CRO New Year's resolutions, and the pros and cons of several experiment prioritization frameworks such as
PIE (https://www.widerfunnel.com/pie-framework/)
PXL (https://cxl.com/blog/better-way-prioritize-ab-tests/)
Hotwire's framework (https://blog.optimizely.com/2015/05/05/how-to-prioritize-ab-testing-ideas/)

Jan 16, 2021 • 26min
Product Experimentation: Start with me, take a chance, be ready for failure
Jaya and Siddharth explore how Experimentation fits into the Product Development Life Cycle, how to work with challenging stakeholders, share stories about how they've leveraged Experiments to generate results.

Jan 11, 2021 • 36min
Adventures in Experimentation: How do you answer the question, "How many experiments should I run?"
On today’s episode, John Ostrowski and Eden Bidani talk about:
How they respond when someone asks them how many experiments they should run
What they've done when a test breaks in production
Why John keeps a personal list of shame
If you enjoy today’s episode. and you think we’ve earned it - please consider subscribing!

Dec 28, 2020 • 30min
CR-No: Experiments should be backed by hypotheses - leave your best practices for your processes
Today's episode features:
Eddie Aguilar
Kenya Davis
Shiva Manjunath
Siobhan Solberg
The panel talks about:
How best practices in CRO should only apply to approaches and workflows and not necessarily what you should test.
The danger of copying others’ "best practices".
Enjoy!


