I hate the business end but finding a publisher who is worth their salt is not easy. I had a few bad experiences with bottom feeder publishers early on which turned me from them. I know there are good publishers out there but most of them won't accept accept material until you proved yourself first. I'm doing fairly well with CCLI, they came to me asking for material, I owned most all my songs out right, it made it easier on them and me that there was no third party involved. To each his own I guess.