HOW TO FIND LEGITIMATE EMAILS TO GROW YOUR LISTS?
There are many reasons why you may need specific email addresses, including, “contacting editors or webmasters to build relationships (guest posting or cross-promotions), reaching out to industry influencers, finding contact information for potential buyers or clients, or contacting journalists for PR outreach or product launch pitches.”
When trying to find contact information for a specific person from a company website, searching through pages to locate the information could be tedious. And messaging a person directly with the correct email address could be the difference between successful correspondence or a “Mail delivery failed” email bounced back to you.
Some websites don’t even have a directory available to the public. Many websites require filling out a contact form and after doing so you still have to wait for their response. On top of that, you are just sending out a message to the website generally and not to a specific person.
Fortunately, there are currently faster and better ways to find specific email addresses without all the hassle.
How to find business email addresses?
The first and maybe most common way to find an email address is to do a basic Google search. This route can be the easiest and sometimes even the most effective when pursuing an email address.
This method can be as easy as entering the person’s name and the word “contact” or “email”.
If this first method does not work, doing a quick search on Who.Is could be beneficial. This search engine gives those looking for specific email addresses information that is recorded when a person is signing up domain names. If the person used their personal email address you would be able to find it here.
Have someone else find email addresses for you?
Another option you have to help you find a specific email address is using an outreach service. These services can search the Internet for all the addresses that may be associated with the contact you are looking for. Ninja Outreach and Aeroleads are some of the most popular and trusted outreach services around. Like most outreach services, both Ninja Outreach and Aeroleads charge a fee, but you can take advantage of their free trial period.
If you are looking for multiple email addresses, hiring a virtual assistant could be very advantageous. Through Upwork, you can hire freelancers in many different areas of business including web developers, mobile developers, designers and creatives, writers, virtual assistants, customer service agents, sales and marketing experts, accountants, and consultants. Hiring a virtual assistant could help you track down multiple email addresses without spending the time yourself.
Another thing you can do to find a person’s contact information is asking your current network. If you are looking for contact information for someone in your industry, LinkedIn is a good place to start. You may have a mutual connection in your network, and asking your personal contact for an introduction could be very beneficial. Not only would you be in contact with the specific person you are looking for, but the introduction could also help you appear more reputable.
Chrome extension – Hunter
One of our personal favorite ways to find email addresses is Hunter. “The Domain Search lists all the people working in a company with their name and email address found on the web. With 200+ million email addresses indexed, effective search filters and scoring, it’s the most powerful email-finding tool ever created.”
Hunter also uses what they call “Email Verifier”, which ensures that the list of email addresses they are giving you is verified and working. You can confidently send messages to the correct people without worrying about the mail being sent back to you.
They have different price plans but also have a free plan as well. You can also use their Google Chrome extension, which gives you 100 free searches a month.
Anytime you are in need of an email address, simply visit the company website and click Hunter’s Chrome Extension to access a list of email addresses within the same browser without leaving the site. The list will also show different places where the email address was found.
How to find who owns an email address?
If you already have an email address, but you are trying to decipher whom that email belongs to – you will have to do a reverse email search.
One of the reasons you would need this service is if you received a suspicious email from someone you don’t know or someone who did not disclose their name. Another reason is if you have someone’s old email address that is no longer active that you would like to contact.
Infotracer’s reverse email search can help you look for this information and other data on that individual as well. Some of the information you can find through the Infrotracer search engine is age, address, social network sites, and other email addresses associated with the one you searched for.
Conclusion
There is so much information on the Internet. It seems as though the private information isn’t so much private anymore. This can be a good thing or a bad thing, but regardless of your view on the subject, knowing how to search for information can help with many aspects of your business/work life and personal life as well.
Understanding the different strategies on how to search for email addresses and use email verification checker can be very valuable when it comes to contacting editors, influencers, buyers, clients, and even old friends. Searching a website for specific contact information can be very tedious, and most of the time unsuccessful. We hope that this article has given you the necessary knowledge to get in contact with those you need.
