This is always one of my favorite posts. The true way of choosing a PRO is to get representatives of all three major companies or their respective counterparts in other countries, is to take them up in an airplane to 20,000 feet, drop them out without parachutes and which ever one lives is the one you go with. LOL! JUST KIDDING!

The key to all business dealings in this business is RELATIONSHIP. You should visit the web sites, ask questions, make appointments and see who you fit with. They are all COLLECTION agencies. until you have something earning money, none of them will do you any good. They all have workshops, seminars, shows, parties, events. They are all stocked with well meaning good people who are in the writer's corner. But they all have the same problems in that we are dealing with a general populace of the world who refuse to pay for music at all, so there is NO money transferred. They are all working against that as well.
So do research, find people you like and learn about how the business works. Keep your activity up and your expectations reasonable. You will do fine.

MAB