Cicada Sounds

If you are a Busi­ness Owner, Entre­pre­neur, Speaker, Coach and/or a Healer, it is time that you get noticed in your spe­cial­ized mar­ket.  By mak­ing one impor­tant change, you will increase your income and reach more peo­ple.  Here’s a com­plete and effec­tive solu­tion that will help you do just that.

Dis­cover How You Too Can Turn Your

Infor­ma­tion, Knowl­edge and Exper­tise

Into a *HOT* Audio Prod­uct that You Can

Sell For Easy Money!

You’re about to Dis­cover the Power of Cicada Sounds to help you quickly cre­ate, deliver, and pro­duce an excit­ing and pow­er­ful audio prod­uct that can lit­er­ally sell like crazy.

With Cicada Sounds, you will tap into the power of audio prod­ucts to grow and expand your busi­ness.  Whether you want to show­case your out­stand­ing train­ing infor­ma­tion, uti­lize a pre-recorded tele-seminar, high­light an inter­view or develop a new prod­uct such as a Med­i­ta­tion CD, you will have the power of Cicada Sounds by your side.

With Cicada Sounds expert help you will:

• Have your very own pro­fes­sional sound­ing audio record­ing with hand selected or cus­tom recorded back­ground music.
• Uti­lize audio prod­ucts as a pow­er­ful tool in your busi­ness to max­i­mize your time, knowl­edge and energy.
• Be seen as a lead­ing expert in your field.
• Build your rep­u­ta­tion by show­cas­ing your unique tal­ents and gifts.
• Uti­lize the power of your spe­cial­ized prod­uct to stand out from the com­pe­ti­tion in all eco­nomic times.

What you don’t know….

• How easy and sim­ple cre­at­ing a qual­ity audio record­ing can be
• It doesn’t have to take a ton of money or time
• You can have a pro­fes­sional sound­ing audio, with the per­fect cus­tomized back­ground music
• How a prod­uct can increase your cred­i­bil­ity and exposure
• Your prod­ucts can sell while you’re sleep­ing and on vacation
• How a poor qual­ity prod­uct is impact­ing your busi­ness negatively
• You can have a pro­fes­sional sound­ing audio prod­uct in as lit­tle as 3 hours
• How to turn that audio into a phys­i­cal product

You DO Need To Know This.…

Record­ing your own audio ebooks, inter­views, tele-seminars, med­i­ta­tion CD’s, and audio infor­ma­tion prod­ucts is within the reach, bud­get and abil­ity of almost any­one! Audio infor­ma­tion prod­ucts are ter­rific for both begin­ner entre­pre­neurs as well as top guns because…

1. Audio prod­ucts are per­ceived as high value – and when bun­dled with writ­ten prod­ucts or tran­scribed can sub­stan­tially increase your value and profit!

2. Audio prod­ucts are extremely fast to develop – within a few hours you can have your own prod­uct online and ready to sell!

3. Audio prod­ucts help brand you as an expert – even if you are only ask­ing the ques­tions - it’s still your audio they are lis­ten­ing to.

Imag­ine the Benefits….

Let’s say you’re a web designer, and you love the making-the-websites part of your job.  But the figuring-out-what-the-client-really-wants-and-needs part is a chore of teeth-pulling pro­por­tions.  Here’s an exam­ple of how to make life eas­ier for both of you and a lot more enjoy­able for you, specifically:

Make a set of work­sheets and audios that guide the client through the “figuring-out” part in a kind of guided work­shop fash­ion, where they do the heavy lift­ing and suss out the infor­ma­tion you’ll need to make their web­site (with­out hav­ing to rush through it because they’re pay­ing you by the hour).  They deliver the com­pleted work­sheets to you and then you can focus on doing the part you love – mak­ing the site itself based on their answers to your questions.

Now you have your own Product!!!

Sell that guided work­shop to peo­ple who aren’t ready to hire you as a web designer, but who rec­og­nize that they need to fig­ure out what they want to do with their site.  Maybe they’ll never hire you, but they can sure give you money for your prod­uct with­out requir­ing you to give them any of your time!

Poof.  You now have a sim­ple way to offload the unpleas­ant parts of your job while still giv­ing great value to your audi­ence and clients.  It’s win-win all around.  (Plus, you can raise your rates since you now have a product.)

Prob­lems it Solves….

• You can offload high-maintenance clients and still offer them valu­able tools.
• By work­ing directly with a pro­fes­sional in the stu­dio dur­ing the pro­duc­tion process it elim­i­nates mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tion, gives you hands on expe­ri­ence in the cre­ation process and saves you time and money!
• Save time by work­ing with a pro­fes­sional, avoid pro­cras­ti­na­tion and uncer­tainty while you save time .
• Increase your busi­ness brand­ing, expo­sure and cred­i­bil­ity with a prod­uct, cre­ate addi­tional resources for income, and a great mar­ket­ing tool for your business.

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Save money by get­ting it done right the first time.  Hire the right team!!!  For as lit­tle as $97 you can cre­ate your first audio prod­uct.  Dur­ing an ini­tial con­sul­ta­tion, we will dis­cuss the best way to rep­re­sent you or your ser­vice with an audio product.

About three weeks ago our friend Mar­garida Tree, owner of One Yoga Planet in Ft. Pierce, called us and asked if we could per­form for a fund-raiser being held for a local Stu­art man called Brother Judah.  She shared that it was for help­ing a fel­low musi­cian and really cool guy pay for med­ical treat­ments for lung can­cer.  Once we spoke to Deb­o­rah Sil­ver, the fund-raiser orga­nizer to solid­ify the plans,Manuka Honey mem­bers were absolutely all on board.

This past Sat­ur­day, June 19^th, Manuka Honey kicked off the event to a packed house there at the Blake Library in Stu­art.  For the dura­tion of the event, from 1 – 4 pm, some­where around 300 peo­ple came to show their love and sup­port for this man.  Fol­low­ing Manuka Honey’s per­for­mance were the belly dancer’s, and yes they were a BIG hit.  Margarida’s sis­ter, Yvonne, who teaches belly danc­ing at One Yoga Planet, brought a troop of dancers that wowed the crowd with their per­for­mance.  She fol­lowed up their per­for­mance with a beau­ti­ful solo dance.  Brother Judah’s young stu­dents sang a sweet heart­felt song for him while he looked on from the side of the stage.  And to cap off the day all of his drum­ming stu­dents and fel­low drum­mers cre­ated a fan­tas­tic drum cir­cle.  The res­o­nant sound of all the drums exploded within the auditorium.

Although we hadn’t pre­vi­ously met Brother Judah until the day of the fund-raiser, we felt hon­ored to spend the day with him and all the peo­ple that love him and sup­port him through his heal­ing process.  Through­out the day we learned that this drum­mer taught racial tol­er­ance and fam­ily val­ues through his drum­ming out­reach classes to the local school chil­dren, and the Boys and Girls Clubs.  You could tell by watch­ing him that his nature was to give, and here he was learn­ing to receive.  Not only were Brother Judah’s young stu­dents there in full force, so were his adult stu­dents and peers, and every­one had a blast!  Once again, I have to say how hon­ored we felt to be a part of such a won­der­ful com­mu­nity event and to send heal­ing, energy, and love to a fel­low musi­cian in need.  We hope to meet again!

By Cheri Abrams

“For those about to rock, we salute you.” – AC/DC

A while back I was look­ing for dif­fer­ent types of flutes to start a music project.  I searched for a while until I set­tled on some bam­boo flutes made by this guy who called him­self, “Erik The Flute Maker,” at www.eriktheflutemaker.com.  Out of the four I received from Erik, I found myself grav­i­tat­ing to the largest one.  This flute was almost too big for my hands, and had only four fin­ger holes and a thumb hole?  Well, not much options on notes, so I thought.  But, when I began to play this flute, its deep tones had this way of putting me into a med­i­ta­tive state.  I could feel the tone vibrate from my core.  It was like my whole body was pro­duc­ing the note and not just the flute.  That’s when I decided to find out more about this large and sim­ple flute.

The shakuhachi was cre­ated around the 9th cen­tury in China and was brought to Japan by monks.  Later, these war­rior monks called Komuso (monks of Empti­ness) played the shakuhachi in con­junc­tion with the prac­tice of zazen (sit­ting zen) and called this suizen (blow­ing zen). Play­ing this music requires many dif­fer­ent breath­ing tech­niques.  Play­ing the shakuhachi was a form of sutra chant­ing in the Fuke Tem­ples.  As such, the shakuhachi was not con­sid­ered a musi­cal instru­ment, but a reli­gious tool. What resulted from this prac­tice was a large body of music called honkyoku (orig­i­nal music).  In the purest honkyoku, pri­mary atten­tion is given to each breath-sound rather than to var­i­ous musi­cal ele­ments, like melodic pro­gres­sion. The Komuso cen­tered their prac­tice of shakuhachi on devel­op­ing what they called their kisoku (spir­i­tual breath) to such a degree that they would enter the state of tet­tei on (absolute sound) with the bam­boo and every­thing else. Their aim was to expe­ri­ence enlight­en­ment through the shakuhachi.

So now I under­stand why I responded the way I did when play­ing the shakuhachi.  I would feel cen­tered, grounded, and “in the now” while play­ing.  It was the per­fect choice when Kumari Mullin, Ani­mal Mystic/Reiki Mas­ter, asked me to write and record flute music for her Tele-Healing Series.  The shakuhachi com­ple­mented Kumari’s guided med­i­ta­tion beautifully.

There is for­mal train­ing and teach­ing for the shakuhachi flute.  I even found this won­der­ful web­site, www.komoso.com, The Inter­na­tional Shakuhachi Soci­ety.  But for me, I play the shakuhachi flute from my spirit and heart. While my spirit plays the melody, my core is work­ing on radi­at­ing the tone to achieve peace, ground­ing, focus and even release; what­ever my spirit needs at the time. By doing this, it allows me to truly express my feel­ings and emo­tions in my play­ing.  I always come away feel­ing more bal­anced and cen­tered after play­ing the shakuhachi flute.

In clos­ing I would like to say by no means am I a tra­di­tional player.  I am just a musi­cian who found beauty in this flute, and I look for­ward to years of learn­ing more about this instru­ment.  I know the enjoy­ment I receive is from the sim­ple act of explor­ing the shakuhachi.

“Music is the medi­a­tor between the spir­i­tual and the sen­sual life.”  ~Lud­wig van Beethoven

Writ­ten By Cheri Abrams
Co-owner of Cicada Sounds LLC