Last week, I had the opportunity to be on the Recruiting Animal Show. Towards the end of the show, a caller asked me how to find personal email addresses on the web. I answered the question, but because there are so many ways to tackle the issue, I thought I should follow up with a series on finding email addresses. To start, I am sharing a list of resources and techniques that will help you find business email addresses.
Linksy.me – Linksy is a great place to start when searching for email addresses. Linksy generates possible email addresses based on a persons name, then cross-references those names with gravatar.com to see if the person has a gravatar account with a photo. If the person has a gravatar account, one can simply use that email address and initiate contact. If the user does not have a gravatar account, Linksy has generated a list of possible email addresses that can be tested using one the tools below.
Rapportive (free)– Rapportive for Gmail is a tool that has been mentioned previously on SourceCon. Below is a video that demonstrates how one can guess email addresses using Rapportive.
http://www.mailtester.com/ – test individual email address (free)
http://www.briteverify.com/ – test a list of email addresses (there is a cost based on how many addresses are tested)
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http://email-format.com/ – find the email format used by thousands of US companies
A post from the SourceCon archives discussing this issue
Finding personal addresses is a bit more complicated, look for a follow-up post soon. What tool are you using to find business email addresses?
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Nice article. The best tool I’ve worked with recently is Connectifier: http://www.connectifier.com If there is an email address linkedin to (social media) web page, it is visible. Rapportive could work when no details are available, Connectifier helps you to skip a few steps.
You should also check out Email Sourcer Pro
(http://www.outwit.com/products/sourcer/) from Outwit, the same folks
who make the very powerful web scraper, Outwit Hub, that has been demo’d
at SourceCons in the past. Free version is OK, and paid version is
only $39
To run batches of email lookups, you can use http://Toofr.com. This tool allows you to take a CSV of first name, last name, and website domain, and it will find the best email for that person. Saves a lot of time and is great for B2B prospecting.
I love this Rapportive idea. I’d like to point out that in recent months there have been a number of new apps and tools which take this idea to the next level.
One such example is eMail Prospector tool, ( Free trial run – http://bit.ly/1aogbR4 ) where it does all the hard work for you. You just need to know the first and last name and company they work for and tool gives you verified business e-mail.
Will definitely check out some of these sites. Thanks for sharing. If you use Chrome, FireFox or Safari, SellHack.com is also a good one. – Sandra, founder at HireQ.com
Was about to build my own then just found a great resource: http://www.email-format.com/
Use this tool https://www.egrabber.com/emailprospector/ , it automates your search process from the internet. You must to know name and company name, it find the person email addresses with accuracy.
It is also possible to retrieve email addresses from any social network profile with a help of SignalHire Chrome Extension. Moreover, the app verifies retrieved email addresses in a real-time mode by checking response of mail server and indicating level of deliverability. Google Chrome Store link https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/find-emails-on-linkedin-g/aeidadjdhppdffggfgjpanbafaedankd