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1. Navigate to the Facebook website and log in to your account.

2. Click the “Find Friends” link located next to your account name on the Facebook menu.

3. Enter the name of an employer in the “Employer” field.

4. Select the correct employer from the search results that appear.

5. Click the “Add Friend” button located next to any of the people listed in the results for that company or click the person’s name to view his public personal Timeline.

Finally, if you run across folks online you want to know more about often, search a ton of engines for someone’s name with the Who Is This Person? Firefox extension. Simply highlight the name on any web page and look ’em up on Wink, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Facebook, Google News, Technorati, Yahoo Person Search, Spock, WikiYou, ZoomInfo, IMDB, MySpace and other engines from the Who Is This Person? context menu item.

For more online sleuthing resources, check out Wendy’s great tutorial on searching public records online. To make yourself more findable? Have a say in what Google says about you. Also, many of these services let you “claim” your name and add information to your results. Do a search for your own name and click the link that says, in effect, “Is this you?”

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This strategic hack was coined by Ginny Soskey, Section Editor of the HubSpot blog. Here are the steps in the process:

Step 1 Search for other company email addresses.

If our contact’s email address isn’t readily available, we have to do a little more digging. There’s typically one email structure for each company, so everyone who works for that company has a consistently formatted email address.

For example, firstinitial_lastname@company.com. If we can find someone’s email address from that company, we can likely copy that structure to determine our contact’s email address.

Where can we find company email structures?

Check out LinkedIn. If we find a first connection that works at the company, we can look at the “Contact Info” section of their profile to see if they included their work email.
Press releases are a hidden treasure for finding the structure of a company’s email address. Search for a company’s recent announcements with Google or on their website and, if they have a PR person, their contact information should be at the bottom of the release.
Try the company’s blog as well, it will usually include the author’s contact information at the bottom or top of the page.

Pro Tip: Try this website to quickly find a company’s email convention based on their domain.

Step 2 Plug the person’s information into that structure.

Once we find the company’s email structure, we can plug in our contact’s name. For example, after some digging, we find the company’s email address to be:

firstname@company.com

Now let’s plug in the rest. Say our contact’s name is Steve and he works for Culture Company. Here’s what his email would look like:

This isn’t fool-proof though. Steve might actually be a pet name for Steven or Stephan or Stephen. We should try all possibilities by including these emails in our list as well:

steven@cc.com

stephan@cc.com

stephen@cc.com

Pro Tip: Use thrust.io to generate a list of these possibilities automatically. The free tool pulls any valid email addresses for your contact’s given name and domain. Here’s how Sam Parr used this tool to connect with 27+ CEOs without any introductions.

Step 3 Check the email with HubSpot’s CRM.

Once we determine our list of possible email addresses, we should compose a message in Gmail and enter each email into the “To” line. If they’re valid, HubSpot Sales will show us their contact profile with information like where they work and their social media profiles.

See how Brian’s information appears in his contact profile? We know this is a legit email address. On the other hand, if the email isn’t valid, we’ll get a blank profile like this one:

Step 4 Try other common email structures.

No luck? Our email structure guess may be wrong, so let’s be sure to check all potential email formats before we go back to the drawing board.

Here are the most common email structures:

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Step 5 Plug these options into HubSpot, and find the winner.

Type in all of the options into the “To” line of a new email, and make sure HubSpot Sales is installed. Once we see our contact’s information pop up, we know we have the right email.

Now we can focus on the part that matters: sending an email that people can’t ignore.

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Step 1 Copy this google spreadsheet.

Step 2 Enter your contact’s information.

Step 3 Verify the email with mailtester.com.

Mailtester will tell us whether we’ve found a valid email address. Let’s try it out with our previous example: fredflinstone@gravelcompany.com.

Invalid, just as HubSpot told us in the first approach. A valid email will show up on this screen in a green box and display “Valid mail domain” instead of “Invalid mail domain.”

Step 4 Conduct a final test in HubSpot before composing the email.

Navigate to HubSpot Sales and type in the validated email address in the “To” line of a new message. If we see information appear in their contact profile section, we’ve confirmed that we found the right email address. We can also conduct this email verification test using another tool, Rapportive.

VERIFY EMAIL WITH HUBSPOT SALES

Step 2 If none of those work, look on the company’s website

The goal here is to verify the @company.com email structure. To do this, we can look at the company’s blog to see if they include contact information for authors, we can check the bottom of their PR announcements for contact points, or we can sift through their “About Us” page in case they’ve included any employee contact information.

Step 3 Once we’ve verified the structure, try Google again.

Again, we can conduct a common search, such as “Fred Flinstone @company.com” or if we want to limit our search to just the company’s website, try this search:

Pro Tip: If we can’t find our contact’s company email address, we can turn to their personal email address. Perform a search like the one below to see if they have a personal website.

Step 4If we don’t find success here, we can turn to social networks.

Let’s start with Twitter. Does our contact have a Twitter handle? We can also Google search this: “Fred Flinstone Twitter.” Check out their description in Twitter for clues to other websites where we might find their email. If that doesn’t work, we can try following our contact and then tweeting or direct messaging them to ask for their email.

The key here is to let he or she know why you want to get in touch. Be specific and get to the point, but don’t tweet a simple “what’s your email?” And remember, we only have 140 characters to send something compelling.

Pro Tip:Try Twitter’s advanced search to see if our connection ever tweeted out his email. In the “Advanced Search” menu type (at)(dot) in the “All of these words” space, and then the person’s twitter handle in the “From these accounts section.”

No Twitter? Try LinkedIn. Do the same search here: “Fred Flinstone LinkedIn.” Once we find their profile, we can look for a personal website or an email which might be listed under “contact info” right underneath their profile picture.

No luck? Let’s try sending them a request to connect.

If we find any common interests or connections, use these to increase the “compelling” factor of our message. Keep in mind we only have 300 characters to urge our recipient to accept the invite. People also respond well to compliments, so we can also try something like this:

Once (and if) they accept our invitation to connect, we can message them in more depth regarding our outreach and then request their email.

Pro Tip: As soon as they accept our invitation to connect, we have their email address. Click “Connections” in the LinkedIn Nav bar and then click the settings gear in the upper right corner of the page. Under “Advanced Settings” click “Export LinkedIn Connections.” Voila – we automatically have all of our connections email addresses [Click to Tweet Tip].

Still not working? We can turn to Quora. Let’s type in [First Name] + [Last Name] in the search bar to see if our contact has a Quora profile. If they do, click their profile and we can gather more information about their social profiles or websites.

Look at their activity to see what they’re interested in, if they’ve asked any questions, and what questions they’ve responded to. Once we gather more information about our contact, we can try messaging them by clicking the “Message” button on their profile page.

Pro Tip: We can reverse email lookup with Facebook to verify that we’ve found the right email address. All we have to do is type in what we presume is our contact’s email address in the search bar. If a profile appears with our contact’s name, we know we’ve found the right email address.

Lost email = found. Just like that. And by transitive property..

Email found = door opened.

And opened doors can lead anywhere… to a new relationship, an overdue reunion, a business deal, or life-altering insight.

Find emails, open doors.

Now that the easy part is over, let’s look at how we can build meaningful relationships with connections through proven examples.

From: Yesware.com

How to Find Anyone’s Email: 13 Little-Known Tricks

By Bernie Reeder in Sales, Work Smart

You know who you want to contact — now if only you could find an email address.

Ugh. The dreaded email address search.

**Bonus: Find out when the emails you send are being opened. And clicked.**

Some might resign themselves to mindless Googling. Or try the old Rapportive guess-and-check “trick” that’s been circulating the Internet for years.

Please don’t do that.

Not when you could be wrapping up your email address search in under 30 seconds flat.

We did some digging to build a complete list of the best free tools and tactics to quickly find email addresses by name, using publicly available information. If your favorite didn’t make the list, feel free to share it in the comments.

1. Clearbit – Super Accurate Email Finder That Lives In Your Inbox

This Gmail Chrome extension finds email addresses in less than five seconds, and we’ve found that it’s accurate 97% of the time. Just plug in someone’s company name with either their first name or job title. Once Clearbit identifies an address for you, you can one-click compose an email to that person.

2. Datanyze Insider – Super Fast Email Address Lookup For Chrome or Firefox

Datanyze’s browser plugin lets you look up anyone’s email address by highlighting their name wherever it appears online. The Insider Email Finder then pings likely email addresses, finds which one is active, and displays a link to the correct address.

3. SellHack – Search Up To 10 Emails For Free Per Month

Similar to Datanyze Insider, Sell Hack is a handy browser extension that checks publicly available data sources to find someone’s email address. The free plan will let you search up to 10 emails per month on Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.

4. Email Hunter – Find Email Addresses In Bulk By Company Domain

This one’s great for account-based sales. Punch any company domain in and you’ll quickly get a list of all publicly available email addresses associated with it. You can search up to 150 domains for free each month, and plans start at $49/month if you’re interested in searching more.

5. Headreach – Search by Name, Company, or Website

Headreach allows users to search for prospects by name, company, website, or by using the ‘advanced search’ option where you can search by job position (easy access to decision makers). Once you find your prospect, click “find (name)’s emails and social profiles” and they’ll be added to your contacts. Headreach also includes a log for easy access to all of your searches.

6. Findthat – “The Yellow Pages of Email”

Findthat is a quick and easy way to search and discover exactly who you’re looking for. This database includes several diverse plans. Whether you keep it simple with the free plan (includes 15 monthly credits) or get the whole team involved (their team plan runs for $149 per month with over 3,000 credits).

7. Anymail Finder – Guesses your prospect’s address using email patterns

Just click on the toolbar from your Chrome browser and you can add your prospect’s name and their company website. Anymail Finder guess their email address in seconds and let you one-click copy it.

A note: if you’re looking for addresses at an account where email address patterns vary, it’s going to be tough to accurately guess your prospect’s addresses using Anymail Finder. For example, at Yesware our earliest employees have firstname@yesware.com as their address, whereas more recent employees have firstinitiallastname@yesware.com as their pattern. Anymail did not pick this up. Matthew’s email address is accurate above but others were not. Stick with Anymail for companies where you know one pattern applies.

8. Voila Norbert – Quickly Find And Verify Someone’s Email

Search by first name, last name, and company domain. Norbert pings the mail host to confirm the correct email address, giving you 50 free searches per month.

While simple to use — you don’t need to install a plugin — Norbert does not check for catchall addresses, and it limits the number of queries users can conduct (SMTP servers could block the service if pinged too frequently). In our own unscientific test, Norbert was able to correctly identify three out of five email addresses.

Tired of copying and pasting email messaging? Save yourself time; create an email template.

9. Email For Corporations – Find The Right Business Email Format

This free database contains the email address formats of more than 1000 companies. Search by company name, industry, or geographical location to find the pattern your prospect’s company uses across their corporate email addresses — i.e. firstname@yesware.com, or firstname.lastname@yesware.com.

Small caveat: The site hasn’t added new companies to its listings since 2011, so consider this a tool for prospectinginto established companies only. We had better luck finding email patterns for startups and other new businesses using EmailBreaker (below).

10. CEO Email Addresses – Send Emails To The C-Suite

It’s exactly what it sounds like. Use this site to find email addresses of CEOs in companies around the globe.

11. Conspire – Ask For An Introduction, Backed By Data

One of the coolest email tools we’ve come across recently is Conspire, an app that analyzes your contact list to identify mutual acquaintances who can introduce you to the person you want to reach.

Simply sign up with your existing email account and search for the person or company you’re interested in emailing. Conspire will churn out a relationship graph showing who has the strongest ties to that person across your extended network, based on factors like frequency, speed, and the length of time they have corresponded.

It even offers prewritten email templates to make your request that much easier. (Although we’d be remiss if we didn’t recommend copying and pasting the text into a Yesware template so you can track what happens after sending.)

By the way, if you’re looking for more email templates to introduce yourself or make new connections, you might want to check out the 18 free ones we offer in our latest email course.

12. LinkedIn Connections – Export Email Addresses To Google Contacts

Just because you’re connected with prospects on LinkedIn doesn’t mean you have their email addresses in your Google Contacts List.

The good news is that hidden away in LinkedIn’s advanced settings is the ability to export your connections, giving you up-to-date email address in your inbox.

You can also use Zapier to sync new LinkedIn Connections to your Gmail Contacts as they come in.

13. Google ‘Em – How To Use Search Operators To Find Emails

Sometimes it really is that easy. Try these basic queries first:

[name] + email (or) email address
[name] + contact (or) contact information (or) contact me

If that doesn’t work, it’s time to get creative with Google search operators. Try running a search of their company website, like so:

site:companywebsite.com + [name] + email
site:companywebsite.com + [name] + contact

14. Advanced Twitter Search – The (at) (dot) Approach To Finding Any Email

People get asked for their email on Twitter all the time. You can use Twitter’s advanced search to find the last time your contact responded to such a request:

Search for the terms (at) (dot) in “All these words” under the ‘Words” section
Enter their Twitter handle in “From these accounts” under the “People” section

Pro tip: Don’t waste your time searching for the word “email.” You’ll just end up combing through a long list of tweets on the topic of email, and not their actual email address.

Ready for more tools that live in your inbox? Check out these Gmail extensions.

You may be able to easily find somebody’s website, Facebook profile, Twitter profile, LinkedIn profile and countless other social profiles, but their email address? Good luck with that!

People protect their email addresses for a reason, and even if you try to run an email address search by Googling somebody’s full name with the word “email,” you’re often unlikely to find anything. Putting it right out there in plain sight on the web invites anyone and everyone to contact them–even spammers.

But in the age of social media, is email still really relevant? Should we all just give up on trying to find people’s email addresses and resort to Facebook Messages and Twitter Direct Messages instead?

Nope. At least not yet.

Why Emailing Someone Is More Powerful Than Contacting Them on Social Media

Email is the most personal way to contact someone. It’s meant for one thing and one thing only–getting in direct contact with somebody. Sure, social platforms offer private messaging features, but in the end, they’re primarily meant to be used for public sharing.

Email is the most professional way to contact someone. If you’re a professional who’s looking to share an idea with another professional, you’re more likely to get a serious conversation going via email. People do business via email–not through private chats on Facebook or Twitter.

People pay more attention to their email inboxes. Not everyone checks their Facebook Messages or Twitter DMs. If they even use these platforms, they’re usually more preoccupied with browsing and interacting on them. Email, on the other hand, is meant for receiving private messages that people know they need and want (think work conversations or subscriptions to newsletters), so they’re much more likely to browse through their inboxes regularly.

Everybody has an email address. Email is the one thing that makes personalization on the internet possible. You can’t sign up for an account on any website without an email address. Facebook may be the largest social network in the world, but that doesn’t mean that everyone uses it. Whether you like using email or not, it’s basically a mandatory part of interacting online.

Even when people do start talking on social media, it’s common courtesy to ask for each other’s email to move the conversation to a more personal and professional medium if there’s lots to be discussed. I see a lot of people on Twitter do this.

Now that you’re probably convinced that email is still the best way to contact somebody (especially for professional matters), let’s take a look at three of the very best tools that can help you find somebody’s email address in as little as a few seconds.

Click through to the next slide to check out the first tool.

Use Email Hunter to Search for Email Addresses by Domain

Email Hunter is probably the most useful tool that you can take advantage of if you’re looking for somebody’s company email address.

It works by asking you to type a company domain name in the given field and then pulls up a list of all the email results it finds based on sources from around the web. Depending on the results, the tool may even suggest a pattern like {first}@companydomain.com if it detects any.

Once you’ve found an email address from the results that you want to try emailing, you can switch over to the Verify tab to get Email Hunter to do some more investigative work on it. You’ll be told whether the address is valid or not.

You’re allowed to perform up to 150 searches for free every month, but if you want more than that, plus the ability to make bulk requests and export results to a CSV file, you’ll need to upgrade to a premium monthly plan.

Make sure to check out the Email Hunter Chrome extension too, which makes it possible for you to get a quick list of email addresses when you’re browsing a company site. No need to open up a new tab and search EmailHunter.co. It even adds an Email Hunter button to LinkedIn user profiles to help you find their email addresses.

Email Hunter Advantages: Fast, easy to use and great for looking up company-specific email addresses. The Chrome extension makes it even faster!

Email Hunter Disadvantages: Limited free use and not at all useful for searching for personal email addresses from free providers like Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and others.

Use Voila Norbert to Search for Email Addresses by Name and Domain

Voila Norbert is another email address search tool that’s both free and super easy to use.

In addition to a domain name field, you’re also given the option to fill out the first and last name of the person you’re trying to contact. Based off the information you’ve provided, Norbert will start searching for related email addresses and will notify you of anything it can find.

The tool works best with company domains because there are only so many users that will have a company email address. Amazingly enough, it even works with free email providers like Gmail. Just bear in mind that if you decide to search for a first and last name with a Gmail.com domain, the results that Norbert gives you may not correspond to the exact person you’re trying to contact, mainly because Gmail has such a massive user base and there are bound to be multiple users who share the same names.

It appears that Voila Norbert can only perform so many searches at a time, which is why there are premium options you can pay for to get more unlimited searches. There’s also a powerful Massive Search option that you can use by uploading a CSV file of names and website domains to get an estimate of how much it would cost to search each one.

Voila Norbert Advantages: Very easy to use and great for finding email addresses based on full names and company-specific domains. There’s the added bonus that it works for free providers like Gmail too.

Voila Norbert Disadvantages: The service is limited to a number of free searches every day and if you are looking for an address for a free provider like Gmail, there’s no guarantee that the email it finds belongs to the correct person.

Use Anymail Finder to Search for Email Addresses by Name and Domain

Anymail Finder is nearly identical to Voila Norbert, but it has a few subtle differences that make it a worthwhile mention here.

Like Voila Norbert, you can type in a name and a domain to search for an email address. I personally found that Anymail was a lot faster than Norbert, and there was a great little extra feature where my searches and corresponding results were listed in a collapsible tab on the right side of the screen.

The biggest downside to Anymail is that it’s very limited in use for free users, and you’ll notice a counter at the top of the screen drop down by one (starting from 20) every time you perform a new search. It’s not clear if you can get 20 free searches a day or 20 free searches a month, but I suspect that it is a monthly limit. A premium upgrade of about $20 a month will get you 1,000 searches per month.

Unlike Voila Norbert, Anymail Finder doesn’t seem to work with free email providers like Gmail. I tried using Gmail.com as the domain for a search and got an error.

Anymail Finder also has a Chrome extension, but given the poor reviews, you’re probably much better off sticking with Email Hunter’s Chrome extension, which has some really great reviews.

Anymail Finder Advantages: Fast and easy to use to find emails based on names and domains.

Anymail Finder Disadvantages: Very limited use for free users and it only works with company-specific domains.

Use Rapportive to Find Active Email Addresses

Rapportive is a neat little email tool from LinkedIn that works with Gmail. It only comes in the form of a Google Chrome extension.

Once installed, you can start composing a new email message in Gmail by typing any email address into the To field. Active email addresses that are linked to LinkedIn profiles will display profile information on the right side.

Rapportive won’t give you any suggested email addresses like any of the previous tools mentioned; that’s up to you to figure out. So, you can either use one of the previously mentioned tools to come up with email addresses or you can guess them yourself by typing examples into the Gmail To field like firstname@domain.com, firstandlastname@domain.com or even more generic addresses like info@domain.com and contact@domain.com to see what sort of information appears in the right column.

What’s great about Rapportive is that it can give you some hints about email addresses that aren’t exactly connected to any social data. For example, info@domain.com may not be in use for a particular person’s LinkedIn profile, but if you type it into the To field in a new Gmail message, it may display a message in the right column confirming that it’s a role-based email address.

If you type in an email address that doesn’t show any information in the right column, it probably isn’t a valid email address.

Rapportive Advantages: Useful if you know the person you’re trying to contact is already on LinkedIn and may be used as a complimentary tool to some of the previous tools mentioned.

Rapportive Disadvantages: Lots of guesswork and it only works with Gmail.

And that’s a wrap! Hopefully, you found all of these tools useful in your hunt for email addresses. None of them are exactly perfect, and you may even need to do a little more digging around to make sure you’re searching for the right person, but they’re extremely helpful when a particular person’s email address is nowhere to be found on the web.

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