This morning saw members of the Catch team attending a breakfast at The Lansdowne Club, put on by our client JLA, with digital whizz kid Josh Spear, one of the most influential digital marketing strategists (and certainly the youngest at just 25 years old!).

3 years ago Josh founded the digital strategy firm Undercurrent in New York and is now advising some of world’s biggest brands. His consultancy specialises in creating strategies for deeper, lasting online relationships, and acts as a think tank on the influence of technology on human behaviour.

If you’d like to attend the next “Speakers breakfast” or to peruse JLA’s database of Motivational Speakers, After Dinner Speakers, Cabaret and Dance Bands, Conference Speakers, or Presenters take a look at www.jla.co.uk.

Catch’s SEO specialist extraordinaire Danny is a multi-talented chap. Not only does he play in one of London’s most successful wedding bands at weekends, he has also just been signed up to JLA, the UK’s leading speaker bureau, as a speaker-for-hire on the subject of search engine optimisation.

JLA have a huge range of motivational speakers, after dinner speakers and presenters, of which we’re proud of Danny for being one.

Catch offers a comprehensive range of SEO services in order to help your business rank and convert through the use of conventional on/off page optimisation, and our slightly more off-piste tailored Social Media strategy.

Get in touch to see how we can help you get onto page 1 in Google.

Our website for the UK’s leading speaker bureau and talent agency www.jla.co.uk has won a Gold award at the MIMAs last Friday in the category for best website.

The Meetings Industry Marketing Awards (MIMA) was launched in 2002 to raise the standards of marketing in the meetings and events industry and to recognise the marketeers. The 2009 judging panel was made up of industry leaders from a wide range of businesses including Ogilvy, Honda UK, Aviva and Barclays.

The photo above is of Jeremy Lee, founder of JLA collecting the gold award onstage.

Read our full case study here.

This freshly released email marketing benchmark report for 2009 comes as highly recommend reading for marketers, advertisers and publishers alike who use email marketing is a part of their digital strategy.

Produced by Australian firm Returnity it’s based on data from nearly 100 million emails, 12,000 campaigns, 450 clients and 18 industry segments – they’ve certainly done their research.

You can download the PDF (1mb) directly by clicking here.

Here at Catch we design/manage/send tens of thousands of emails a month for clients including AXA, Crest Nicholson, Executive Offices Group, JLA and Lucida PLC. We’ve promoted everything from the Chemical Brothers playing in Trafalgar Square for Beck’s Futures to “Dancing Pig” John Sergeant’s speaker engagements post-Strictly Come Dancing.

If you are interested in talking more about how we can put our experience in email marketing to work for your business then give me a call on 0207 494 3554 or email me at jonathan@catchdigital.com.

Continuing our work with JLA, the UK’s leading speaker and talent bureau, we’ve just launched the JLA Feedback Forum – the first ever space for event professionals to share opinions on talent.

Also launching this side of Christmas, (the finishing touches are being done as we speak) MyJLA, a password-protected area where JLA clients can collaborate and manage their enquiries in real time.

These two significant steps forwards for JLA’s digital presence goes some way to showing their commitment to remaining The UK’s biggest specialist agency for keynote, motivational and after dinner speakers, conference presenters, awards hosts and cabaret for corporate, industry and public sector events.

Visit www.jla.co.uk/feedback-forum/ to
find out more or read our case study on their new website.

The UK’s leading speaker bureau and talent agency JLA have just launched their revamped website designed and produced by Catch Digital.

It features 800 entries including over 100 new names – with a Google Suggest style search facility, Speaker Q&As, Client Comment pieces, a huge resource of new video clips and downloadable high-res stills, full updated biographies, ‘Amazon-style’ alternative suggestions, external links and details of Speakers Breakfasts and other JLA showcases – including footage from September’s Real Variety Show.

JLA appointed Catch Digital as its digital partner in 2008 after a pitch involving 12 agencies including WorldArchipelago, Heat Design, Logic plc and Design Motive.

Catch continue to work with JLA on Phase 2 of the project including “MyJLA”, a password-protected area to manage enquiries, and the “Feedback Forum” – the first ever space for event professionals to share opinions on talent.

Visit www.jla.co.uk or read our case study.

After a fiercely contested pitch we are proud to announcethat Catch has been chosen to reposition JLA’s brand online and we’d like to officiallywelcome them onboard as our latest client.

JLA are recognised as the leading full service speakerbureau and talent agency for corporate and industry events, theFinancial Times rates them as “The UK’s leading bureau” and the Independentwrites “JLA have opened up whole new avenues in corporate entertainment”.

We’re looking forward to working with them over the coming year.