News & Insights

If it touches a nerve, makes us smile, or triggers an idea, we’re putting it in here.

Red Kite Cycles

Red Kite Cycles is our local cycle shop in Shirley (and one of Mike’s favourite ‘toy’ shops). They recently moved to larger premises and wanted ...

Oakfield Primary School creative writing contest

I was delighted this week to be invited to judge a creative writing contest at Oakfield Primary School in Rugby. Mrs Walsh’s class of 9 ...

Updates to the email template editor

Our WYSIWYG email template editor, for the Cloud 9 email marketing system has had an update – we’ve added new menu items and formatting tools ...

All about email open rates

Our customers often ask us what ‘open rate’ means, and whether the open rate they are getting is any good or not. We’ve put together ...

Merry Christmas!!

Well here it is – Christmas day 2009! At first glance it looks as though Mike has nothing better to do on Christmas day than ...

Snow Patrol – Royal Albert Hall

On Wednesday 25th November I went to the Albert Hall to watch a mammoth 3 hour set by Snow Patrol. Firstly: what a venue - ...

The ARC

My father-in-law Tom is taking part in the ARC Atlantic Rally, see intro to race details below: This annual transatlantic rally starting each November in ...

Dream car…..

After watching Top Gear last night I now have a new dream car!! The Lamborghini Balboni…………. a girl can dream :-) Check out ...

Scheduled Power Outage

We will have the lights going off here at Cloud 9 from 8:30 – 15:30 today. We will however have backup power running, but if ...

Print Geek Talk #1

Ok, so here at Cloud 9 we do have more than one type of ‘Geek’. Ash is obviously brimming full of web type geekery but ...