CloudNine Marketing, Inc. is a marketing consulting, public relations and event planning firm with a proven track record for elevating companies and individuals of all sizes to increase revenue, create a competitive advantage and improve marketing effectiveness.

CloudNine Marketing, Inc. provides strategic planning, media relations, event management, brand development, and marketing consulting services. We capitalize on proven processes that have been refined and validated over dozens of clients and years of experience. Corporate launches are our specialty. We invent out-of-the-box approaches to capture first-to-market presence with attention-getting, innovative strategies.

An impressive list of luminaries, authors, films, start-up companies, emerging growth companies, and Fortune 500 corporations can attest first-hand to the benefits of working with CloudNine Marketing, Inc. To read testimonials and review our clientele list, click here

Trina Becksted

Trina Becksted is founder of CloudNine Marketing, Inc. She has more than 20 years of experience as a marketing and public relations consultant. As president of CloudNine Marketing, Inc., Trina takes projects from concept to creation. Some of her biggest projects include producing five events for internationally acclaimed author Deepak Chopra, M.D . She organized and managed each of these events, attracting powerful co-sponsors like Canyon Ranch, Ritz Carlton, Mercedes Benz, Nordstrom's, and The Cleveland Clinic Health System.

Trina's clients particularly appreciate her extensive experience in public relations (PR) management. She has handled PR for Columbus-based Smooth Jazz 103.5 & 104.3, promoting the world-class musicians of the Smooth Jazz concert series, Richard Elliot, Marc Antoine, Russ Freeman, and the Rippingtons .

In addition, Trina has a strong traditional business background. Her career has included sales, advertising and marketing management positions in the automotive, publishing and telecommunications industries. It is through those positions that she became savvy at new business development, media planning, negotiating and buying print space and broadcast air time, as well as designing and implementing sales incentive and award programs.

Trina is a believer in giving back to her community. She helped create the popular Cupid's Night Out charity event that has raised thousands of dollars for St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospita l in Cleveland, and the Cleveland Jaycees . She provided pro-bono public relations services for the Northern Ohio chapter of the March of Dimes and co created their MOD Art Auction . She currently serves as a Board Member for The International Yoga College , and Seven Centers Yoga Arts . She is a Community Council Member for Sister to Sister's www.sistertosister.org National Women's Heart Day with Cindy McCain. She also provides pro-bono support for The Phoenix Friends Chapter of the AZ Cancer Center www.azcc.arizona.edu

Trina holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Baldwin Wallace College with a concentration in Marketing Communications. She has held memberships in the Sales and Marketing Executives and Cleveland Advertising Association. Her personal interests include yoga, mediation, tennis, golf, personal growth and bringing holistic medicine and human potential mainstream.

Trina@CloudNineMarketing.com

Taylor Bates

Taylor holds an oustanding track record in business development. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Business and Marketing from New York University. She began her career in the cosmetic industry in Manhattan. She worked in a famous salon that served clients such as Jackie Onassis and Maria Hawkins Ellington (the wife of Nat King Cole). She later moved to Chicago where she excelled in the computer industry. Her career has taken her all over the world, even to the Canary Islands, where she launched business development efforts from ground zero, building an exquisite branch serving many distinguished clients. Taylor has the ability to offer consultative rapport and apply this approach to public relations and marketing. Her spiritual quests led her to Sedona, AZ where she is living now. Taylor has a wonderful son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter. Her experience and wisdom are wonderful assets with her sweet personality, and we are glad to have her as part of the CloudNine Marketing team. E-mail: taylor@cloudninemarketing.com

Taylor Maguire

Taylor is a freshman at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Mass Journalism and Communication, with an emphasis in public relations. She is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but is currently living in Phoenix, AZ because of school. She hopes her internship will bring her the experience needed to succeed in future careers, as well as the spiritual enlightenment that comes with working in this wonderful atmosphere.

Kyra Geithman

Kyra is a freshman at Arizona State University majoring in journalism with an emphasis in public relations. She is originally from Boulder, CO but currently resides in Phoenix, AZ. Kyra began her internship with Cloud Nine Marketing in December 2009. She grew up living naturally, and enjoys the atmosphere and the hands-on experience that have come with her work so far.