**Guest post by Jeff Lysyczyn, music industry veteran, educator, and creator of Music Business After Dark. 

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Jeff Lysyczyn has worked in Nashville’s music business for over twenty-five years, most of that time as an artist manager for numerous clients, ranging from unsigned artists to Grammy winners. Prior to becoming a manager, he worked at Warner Bros. Records. He’s done freelance work as a marketing and publicity consultant, and since 2015 has been an adjunct professor at the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University.

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