Guess Who’s Back…

Guess who’s back, back again
Shady’s back, tell a friend
Guess who’s back, guess who’s back?
Guess who’s back, guess who’s back?
Guess who’s back, guess who’s back?
Guess who’s back?

Well not quite “Shady” and with all due apologies to the original, I have returned with a new column / blog entitled, “Gene Marbach at Large.”  Given my size, I was going to go with “Extra Large,” but was talked out of it.  

During my brief hiatus, I learned that my four or five readers missed me.  I missed them, too.  I greatly missed writing and working with a deadline (it is amazing how quickly you can come up with 500 words as the clock ticks down). 

Was I born to do this?  Maybe.  I began my career back in the Mesozoic Era as a reporter for a marketing / advertising newsletter, The Gallagher Report. Also, a fortuneteller once told me that I was destined to be a commentator… Ergo, the creation of “Gene Marbach at Large.”  In the space kindly allocated to me by the fine folks at CommPro, I will attempt to analyze, editorialize, chastise, catalyze, hypnotize, surprise, surmise, and apprise (dig the rhyming in keeping with our Rap music theme). 

My focus will be communications and business-related topics with insights informed by my more than 30 years experience in investor relations and corporate communications, most recently as Group Vice President at Makovsky + Company.  I would like to encourage readers to think a little differently. The topics I choose are things of interest to communications professionals and I’ll try to deal with them the way most people would, sometimes seriously, sometimes with a sense of humor. 

Of course, I welcome your comments.