To expand the business visibility and the brand’s influence what could be a better way to market campaigns and generate leads?
The answer would be “EMAIL MARKETING”
Lead generation efforts can be easily boosted with proper inbound and outbound email marketing strategies, But for those strategies to work upon marketers need an email address for cold messaging.
We have created an exclusive guide on email hunting for you. Level up your outreach game by these sure shot methods for finding anyone’s email address.
Let’s hunt!!
1. Use Email Lookup Services
One of the easiest ways to find to email address is with email discovery tools.
How do they work? Simply put the name and the website and they will find the email address in no time.
Choose a tool that is most suited for your purpose.
2. Search “@domainname.com” in DuckDuckGo
Google and Bing are not the only search engines that can help a person to track an email address. @ is mostly used for social tags by these search engines.
Here is where comes DuckDuckGo comes handy.
Anyone can search for “@domainname.com” at DuckDuckGo, and they will reveal email addresses related to that domain instantly.
3. Make your best guess (and test it)
If one knows the first, last name and the domain of the target, that person can easily find the email address. Make your best guess and test them.
Trying out all the possible variants manually is time and energy-consuming.
Here is a short cut, try email permutator to find out any possible combination. You just need to check the suggestion.
After the suggestion by email permutator Gmail and LinkedIn Sales Navigator extension come handy to pick out the real email address. Gmail shows the email associated with a Google profile, while the LinkedIn Sales Navigator extension reveals if this email address belongs to a LinkedIn account.
4. Use Twitter’s advanced search
People often share their email addresses in their tweets, and this makes the process to search for an email address faster but the only issue related to this is that people often replace “.” and “@” symbols with “dot” and “at” words.
So what is to be done then? SIMPLE!!!
Use Twitter’s advance search and look for the words “at” and “dot” in tweets of the targeted person to find the email address.
5. Subscribe to your target’s mailing list
If the targeted person has a newsletter on their blog, then subscribing to their mailing list using an opt‐in form on their website is a friendly method to find the email address.
Most newsletter emails come from their personal email address and quick interaction with them becomes an easier job.
Sometimes email addresses happen to be are -newsletter@domainname.com, news@domainname.com or similar kinds. If you reply to these, the targeted person might reply from their personal email address.
6. Reach out for an email address on Twitter
The best way to reach a person is to drop them a line on Twitter. The message can be a medium for asking out the email address. It is a smart and effective way of finding the email address of someone 1. in demand and 2. that is a frequent user of Twitter. If the person you are trying to contact meets these variables, they are likely to reveal their email on Twitter. Getting an industry expert’s email address can be a huge obstacle especially if you do not know someone in their circle. With Twitter, you can break the ice easily by following tweets.
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7. Ask for a personal connection via a generic email address or contact form
Most companies have either a contact form on their website or a list of a generic email address for inquiries. Reaching out and trying to find the required person becomes easy via this.
Just simply ping anyone whose email address is provided in the contact form or the generic email address in the website and ask them your target’s email address or ask them to connect with you. This method works best if your email signature clearly explains who you are.
8. Find email addresses at scale for blogger outreach
Reaching out to the authors of articles is the most crucial part of any link-building and finding the prospect’s email address in bulk for outreach is necessary.
Go to any content explorer and search for the topic, you are interested in. If the article specifies the author, then the content explorer will provide you with their name. The missing domain name can be recovered in google sheet with this formula shown below:
When you have the domains and the authors’ names, you can upload the list to your email lookup tool and tada! work is done.
9. Try Facebook “About”
Trying to find anyone’s email address becomes a piece of cake with Facebook. Simply visit their company page and the next step to follow is to check the ” About ” section. Most people put their information, email address etc on their Facebook page. For businesses, this may not be a feasible idea but when it comes to targeting a particular individual for their email address it works like a charm.
10. Attempt Additional Google Search Operators
Hit on the basics mining google using the search operator. Here are a few ways you can search for the email address.
- NAME email
- NAME contact
- “FIRSTNAME LASTNAME” email
- “FIRSTNAME LASTNAME” contact
- site:WEBSITE.com name email
- site:WEBSITE.com contact
- site:WEBSITE.com about
- “NAME”
The “NAME” query is particularly useful in case of finding contact information on other domains, in case you are unable to find the contact information on the first website you search through.
11. Verify Emails
Verifying saves a step in the process that will otherwise return an email as undeliverable in case you have picked up a wrong email address. Few options for verifying email address deliverability are as follows :
These work wonderfully when you are unsure if someone still works at that company or if a website is very old. Each of these tools offers a varying degree of success and all have limits to their free use.
12. Check Their Company Website
It is easiest to find someone’s email address simply by doing a bit of digging within their company website especially in the case of smaller companies.
Ways to do it :
Check the Team Page on the website
Simply check the ” Team Page ” or an ” About Us ” page, you can find out if your prospect is listed there and collect the email address.
13. Use Google X-Ray
Google X-Ray is simply the marketing way to call an advanced search. You can use different social media advance searches like Twitter Advance Search or LinkedIn etc. Once you get the necessary information then use a data enrichment tool!
You will be simply automating all the manual work in finding anyone’s email addresses.
Use Google to hit all advance searches!
You can use any of these to leverage your advance search along with google
- Hunter
- Clearbit
- FullContact
- Dropcontact
14. Get the List of all Attendees to a Specific Event
There are tons of ways to get a list of attendees to an event. Use advanced search in Google like site:mgma.com inurl:attendees. You can use other domains too. This is no doubt a valuable source to get an email address at the tip of the fingers.
Use LinkedIn
LinkedIn becomes your best friend when it comes to email address generation. There are 3 ways on how you can do that.
1. Find the company and its Employees
Once you get a hold of the email structure of the company, all you need to do after that is to look up the company and all its employees. Find the targeted person by their surname and construct their email address.
2. Check their previous companies
In case you are unable to figure out that person’s email address then go to their LinkedIn profile, find the companies they used to work for previously and run the whole process mentioned above and find out their email structure.
3. Add them as a connection
If the above two methods fail then adding them as a connection is your way out. Once they have added you back, click on the profile and then click “see contact info” and you will be able to see their email address and other details instantly.
Wrapping Up
In the business and marketing world, we can not boost sales, nor increase web traffic, nor run successful campaigns unless our contact receives our email. Now you know how to to find anyone’s email addresses in seconds. You can use these tools or combine these tools to get a perfect find. What ways have you used so far? Do you find these ways useful? Any other methods you can suggest for finding anyone’s email address. Tell us in the comments below! It will be a pleasure if we hear back from you.
