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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Why SpaceX is Not For Everyone

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.6 β€’ 1.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Growth Newsletter: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe Need marketing help? Visit: https://www.singlegrain.com/ and https://npdigital.com/ Want to recruit great marketers? Find them here: https://marketingschool.io/hire Neil Patel and Eric Siu break down how they’re revamping their marketing for 2026, from YouTube long-form vs shorts to webinars, lives, and AI-powered funnels. They share why riffed, story-led videos beat stiff scripts, how better packaging and thumbnails drive the right views, and why they’re prioritizing enterprise ROI over vanity metrics. You’ll hear behind-the-scenes tests with agencies, influencer hires, internal creators, and global expansion, plus how AI-driven agencies like Single Grain are rethinking content, search everywhere optimization, and work-life balance in a world of SpaceX-level grind. Key takeaways: β€’ Riffed, conversational videos beat stiff scripts for real YouTube growth. β€’ Let sales and client demand choose topics, not vanity views or likes. β€’ Roundtables, lives, and webinars turn enterprise content into high-intent leads. Chapters: (00:00) SpaceX culture and work-life balance (01:34) Why are intense hours breaking families (01:45) Revamping our 2026 marketing plan (02:01) Long form YouTube, scripts vs riffing (03:36) Thumbnails, packaging, and YouTube hooks (05:55) AI-focused pitch for Single Grain (06:10) Short-form content and agency ROI (09:11) Testing roundtable video formats (13:06) Hiring influencers vs in-house talent (18:05) Global expansion, enterprise focus, and email (19:06) Going live, webinars, and community (19:40) Wrap up and subscribe CTA 𝗔𝗕𝗒𝗨𝗧 π—§π—›π—˜ π—–π—›π—”π—‘π—‘π—˜π—Ÿ Welcome to Marketing School, one of the top business podcasts with over 61 million downloads. Each episode delivers actionable marketing tips and strategies from two entrepreneurs who truly practice what they preach. The show is hosted by Eric Siu, founder of Leveling Up and Single Grain, and Neil Patel, co-founder of Neil Patel Digital and recognized by Forbes as a Top 10 Marketer. πŸŽ™οΈ Learn More About the Hosts Eric Siu – Leveling Up: https://www.youtube.com/@LevelingUpOfficial Neil Patel: https://www.youtube.com/@neilpatel πŸ“© Free Resources Growth Newsletter: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe Ubersuggest: https://www.ubersuggest.com/ Answer The Public: https://www.answerthepublic.com/ βœ… Subscribe for Daily Marketing Insights!

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0:00.0

I'll just say one of my friends recently was hanging out at a SpaceX party with a bunch of

0:04.1

SpaceX engineers, okay?

0:06.3

One of the engineers just had a baby recently, okay?

0:10.7

So she was on maternity leave.

0:12.1

She came back and then she quit.

0:13.7

She promptly quit.

0:14.7

Why do you think she quit?

0:17.7

Because she didn't want to work the hours.

0:19.4

She can't take it anymore, right?

0:20.4

It's like she thought she could come back and work the 70, 80, 90, 100 hours plus, but she couldn't. And the thing with Elon is he has extremely high standards. He's going to work so hard he expects you to work that hard, which is fine. Those are his standards, right? But it's very hard to sustain that, especially when it's not your own business, too. And so for some people, like, your mission is so hard, like, you can drag them for like nine years or so. But at a certain point, there's going to be a breaking point. But I thought that was just interesting. Like, this is a whole, like, the, SpaceX is great mission and everything, but it's not for everyone all the time. And so. I have a buddy who worked at SpaceX dude his wife had a kid then they

0:57.6

had a second kid and then he left and now he works at Boeing and I said why'd you make the

1:03.0

move and he said the hours were too much for me trying to raise a family so I'm I picked Boeing

1:08.5

because I could get paid well and work life balance work life balance yeah work life balance is work life balance is a thing well I raise a family, so I picked Boeing because I could get paid well. And work-life balance. Work-life balance. Yeah. Work-life balance is a thing. I got to tell you a funny story about my relative who's an agent. I'll tell you at lunch during our business lunch. An agent? A real estate agent? No, no, no. An agent for the government. Oh, okay. I'll tell you later.

1:27.8

Yeah.

1:28.5

So anyway, on that note, let's talk about how we're going to modify our marketing in 2026.

1:37.6

So we're getting close to the end of the year.

1:38.8

How we're revamping our marketing for 2026.

1:41.3

Maybe let's talk about how our experiments have gone recently. So we've talked about our long-form YouTube experiments, our short-form experiments. We can talk about how our experiments have gone and then we can move into how we're revamping. Sure. Yeah, because we've done a whole year worth of experiments. You want to start with long-form video or video stuff, video marketing first. Yeah. So I actually just started this again.

2:01.7

And you know, you and I, we,

2:03.6

I think we go to the same place to record still, the studio in Century City. No, I don't go there. You don't go to anymore. So I still go to this studio. I don't want to spend the money. That's good. That's good. So that's another thing we should talk about too on the spending piece.

2:16.2

But I was reading off the teleprompter

2:18.4

and I had like multiple people scripting

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