Egan Montgomery is a founder, researcher, and digital marketing expert with more than a decade of experience spanning both B2B and B2C marketing.
He is Co-founder and VP of Marketing at Backstroke, a generative content platform for email, SMS, and mobile push. Backstroke works primarily with eCommerce customers like Pearl iZUMi, Lyssé, Nathan Sports, and The Porch Swing Company to improve Revenue per Send by as much as 63% using AI-powered audience segmentation and generative content writing. Backstroke is funded by ExactTarget founders and run by former ExactTarget and Salesforce Marketing Cloud executives.
Egan is based in Indianapolis, IN. Outside of his work in email and tech, he loves hanging out with his family and our Golden Retriever, Pippa. Egan is an avid ultramarathon runner and a painfully average golfer. You can find him on LinkedIn where he posts almost daily.
My last post for Only Influencers highlighted some predictions for new roles AI will create. In the corresponding OI Live session, Paul Shriner (yes, the legend himself!) asked if I would also explore this from a different angle— what human skills are irreplaceable? Well, good news, Paul. I have delivered. And...
Headlines warn that AI is set to automate millions of jobs, potentially displacing entire segments of the workforce. They’re right. According to a report by Goldman Sachs, AI could affect 300 million jobs globally, with up to 25% of tasks in the U.S. and Europe being automated. Yet history tells us...
Let’s begin with a thought experiment. Close your eyes for one second and imagine two people. Person one is an Android user. Person two is an iPhone user. What do you see? How are they the same? How are they different? What were they wearing? What cars do they drive? What...
If I said “Rizz”, “Drip”, or “NPC”, would you have any idea what that means? If the answer is “no”, then just search your contacts for your favorite 14-year-old and they will enlighten you. Generation Z, or those people born between 1997 and 2012 according to Pew Research Center, represent $360B...