160 Podcast Upfront Improvements

<p><strong><em>New Sponsor! Sanebox! <a href= "http://sanebox.com/shep">Sanebox.com/shep</a> 😍 #JustDoIt</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>Support our <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/shepodcasts">Patreon page</a>!</em></strong></p> <p><em>Communicate with us via Twitter by using the hashtag <strong><em>#AskSheP</em></strong> and of course follow us on <strong><em><a href= "http://twitter.com/shepodcasts">Twitter</a></em></strong></em></p> <p><a href="http://speakpipe.com/shepodcasts">Speakpipe message</a>! Or you can email feedback@shepodcasts.com. We look forward to hearing from you</p> <h3>Super Quick Re-cap!</h3> <ul> <li>Elsie is back to being somewhere where internet doesn’t exist 😒</li> <li>Discussing the world natural disasters and hurricane impacts</li> <li>Podcast Mid-Atlantic went down this past weekend</li> <li>Elsie the gazelle</li> <li>We’d love your feedback about Hurricane Irma - send in some audio with your thoughts, experiences and how to help!</li> <li><strong>THE NEWS! Brought to you by Sanebox</strong> <ul> <li>sanebox.com/shep <= sign up for the 14 day trial!</li> <li>Ray Ortega and his wondrous vlog at PM17</li> <li>Jess went to THE Podcast Upfront and it was much better than last year</li> <li>We get some super fantastic insight directly from the ground floor as filtered by Jess about the Podcast Upfront!</li> <li>Lots of podcasting companies are getting a crap ton of money to, um, figure out how to make more money</li> <li>Elsie goes on a rant about podcast advocacy and how this money needs to expand beyond investing in metrics and advertising, bah</li> <li>Jess and John - all about advertising, procasters and what they mean for the indie podcasters</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>WEIRD AND WILD SHOW OF THE WEEK</strong> <ul> <li>Dexter Guff - the coolest podcast ever - and how accurate this is 😂</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3>Links mentioned by Jess and Elsie!</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://speakpipe.com/shepodcasts">Leave us feedback via Speakpipe!</a></li> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/q9Jblyv