The SEO Elite Circle
Julian Goldie's paid SEO mastermind is for people serious about ranking with AI SEO. Weekly hot-seat calls and playbooks for more traffic…
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How this community works
- Pricing
- $149 a monthWell above the marketing median of $49.
- Size
- 690 membersBigger than 56% of the marketing communities indexed here.
- Revenue ceiling
- $102,810 a monthIf every member paid the listed price. Free tiers, discounts and churn are not visible from outside.
- Format
- 2 paid tiers
- Platform
- Skool
- Category
- Marketing
- Last verified
- 26 August 2026
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- 2 paid tiers: one price for access, another for proximity. Worth copying once you know which members want more of you.
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About The SEO Elite Circle
Julian Goldie's paid SEO mastermind is for people serious about ranking with AI SEO. Weekly hot-seat calls and playbooks for more traffic.
Why you should join: aimed at more organic traffic, leads, and sales.
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The one-liner
A live AI SEO mastermind where weekly hot seats do the selling.
What they actually sell
SEO Elite Circle, associated with Julian Goldie, combines weekly SEO hot-seat calls, direct message access to Julian and recorded live calls with AI SEO playbooks and systems for ranking and customer growth. The public page places a high claimed value beside each part of the offer, while the listed monthly price positions it as a serious step up from free YouTube education. The key distinction is proximity. Members are not simply handed a playbook and sent away. They can bring a blocker into a live room, hear how it is diagnosed and return to the material afterwards. The page does not spell out a separate access tier, trial or guarantee, so the hot seat and founder access carry most of the offer's weight.
Who pays and why
These are operators who have moved beyond free tutorials and need a real problem solved in public. They pay for attention, speed and a closer view of how an experienced SEO practitioner thinks. There is also a status element. Being able to ask the person behind the results can make a complex field feel more navigable.
Where the members come from
The owner links Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, a website and YouTube. That gives the community a broad educator footprint, with the paid room acting as the back end for people who want help rather than more videos. The page does not show exact audience counts.
What's holding it back
Hot seats do not scale smoothly. As the room grows, fewer members can receive meaningful airtime unless cohorts, rules or extra tiers protect the experience.
Steal this
Make the weekly hot seat the headline product and let the playbook support the live diagnosis, rather than the other way round.
Would this work in another niche?
Yes. Paid ads, conversion rate optimisation and Amazon PPC all have problems where live diagnosis is worth more than another module.
Written 22 September 2026
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