10 ways to find someone's email address (2023)

Over the years I've sent thousands of emails and used dozens of different methods to find email addresses.

After doing this for so long, I've narrowed my list of ways to find email addresses to these 10:

1. Use email lookup services

If you have the budget and are lookingautomate your sales process, Email lookup services are the easiest way to find someone's email address.

There are many tools available. Some are better than others, but they all work in the same basic way. Just enter a name, website, or both, and you'll get what you're looking for.

Some services even let you find email addresses using LinkedIn URLs.

Here are some of the most popular services with a description of what they offer:

• This is Norbert
  • A total of 50 free surveys as part of your trial.
  • Paid accounts start at $49/month for 1,000 searches.
• Hunter
  • 50 free surveys per month
  • Paid accounts start at $49/month for 1000 surveys/month
  • Search for email addresses by using a domain, a person's name, or both.
• Find this email
  • 50 free surveys per month
  • Paid accounts start at $29/month for 500 searches/month.
  • Use the Chrome plugin to find email addresses from social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
• RocketReach
  • Paid accounts start at $75/month.
  • Contains phone number search options.
  • Connect LinkedIn URLs to find the email address of a specific LinkedIn profile.
• Clearbit Connect
  • A Chrome extension that gives you 100 free searches per month.
• Snov.io
  • 50 free surveys per month.
  • Paid accounts start at $29 for 1000 searches per month or 500 bulk searches per month.
  • Available as a web app or Chrome extension.
• Contact
  • This service is said to be the most accurate on the market. According to their own statements, they found 75% of emails in the western world.
  • The Chrome Extension makes it easy to find email addresses based on LinkedIn profile pages.
  • The prices are not publicly available.
• FindThatLead
  • 50 free surveys per month.
  • Paid accounts start at $49/month for 5,000 searches/month.
• AeroLeads
  • Paid accounts start at $49/month for 1,000 searches/month.
  • Search includes phone numbers, full name, company name, title and URL.
• Nome2E-Mail
  • A completely free Chrome extension that gives you unlimited searches per month.
  • No bulk email survey capabilities.

While these services are great, they're not perfect. Sometimes you enter a URL and get no results.

Other times, they just give you email addresses that are simple guesses or are no longer valid.

2. Guess and check

Most email addresses follow one of many common formats.

Because of this, you can find anyone's email address as long as you know their first name, last name, and website domain.

Here are the most common email address formats:

• First Name (nick@theirc.me)
• First Name + Last Name (nickrubright@theirc.me, nick.rubright@theirc.me)
• First name + first letter of last name (nickr@theirc.me, nick.r@theirc.me)
• First initial + last name (nrubright@theirc.me, n.rubright@theirc.me)
• Initials (nr@theirc.me)

That's great, but formatting an email address in all of these formats would be time-consuming.

Instead you can useE-Mail-Exchangeby Metric Sparrow to generate email addresses in these formats.

Once you have that list, you can throw those email addresses into an email verification tool like Neverbounce or Zero Bounce to see which ones (if any) exist.

3. Contact us on Twitter

Twitter is a great way to reach people with short messages.

The downside here is the fact that messages are limited to 280 characters.

If 280 characters isn't enough for what you want to say, just ask for the email address. Many people do this with some success.

To be successful with this, make sure you're using a real, personal Twitter profile and give them a compelling reason to respond.

Either way, it's a good idea to engage with your prospects on social media before sending an initial message orFollow-up-E-Mails.

4. Use Twitter's advanced search features

Since a lot of people request email addresses on Twitter, that means a lot of people are sharing them too!

You can use this behavior to your advantageAdvanced Twitter search.

When people share their email addresses in tweets, they often try to hide them from bots by replacing "." and "@" with things like "period" and "at" or separating parts of the email by spaces.

So when you use Twitter search, you can use words like "email", "me", "contact", "reach", "dot" and "at" to find times when they might be checking their emails. Shared email address in a tweet.

If you want to search for exact phrases like "email me," just enclose that phrase in quotation marks.

5. Use the Google search operators

If you're using Google, you might have luck typing your prospect's name and "email address" into the search box.

Unfortunately, when your prospect has a common name, this can be difficult. This is where Google's search operators can come in handy.

Basically, search operators are a way to further filter your Google search results. For example, typing "site:irc.me" into your search will only show results for that domain.

You can use some of these to your advantage when looking up email addresses.

Here are some example search terms you can use to find email addresses on Google:

• [name] + email (or) email address
• [name] + contact (or) contact information (or) contact me
• [Name] + E-Mail
• [name] + contact

If you know what website your prospect is on, try the following:

• website:websitedacompany.com + [Name] + E-Mail
• website:companysite.com + [Name] + Kontakt
• website:companypage.com + firstname.lastname [at]companyname.com
• site:companysite.com + namenachname [at] nameofcompany.com
• site:companysite.com + name [at]companyname.com
• site:companywebsite.com + firstname_lastname [at] companyname.com

If you are unsuccessful on Google, try a different search engine. Different search engines use different algorithms, which means the results will be different.

6. Reach out to them through your email list

If the person you're trying to reach has a website or blog, you can often reach them through their email list.

Normally these emails are sent using your personal email address on this domain.

This means when you get emails about new blog posts from that email address, you can reply to them and they'll get your email!

This can be a great way to build relationships.

Here is an example of how I came into contact with Neil Patel:

All I did was subscribe to his newsletter and when I noticed a typo in the article he sent I replied to the email.

Granted I didn't throw anything at it here, but this is just to show that the concept works.

Keep in mind that these emails are sometimes sent from generic email addresses such as newsletter@domainname.com or similar email addresses.

If you reply to them, your reply may still be forwarded to the contact's personal email address, so it's worth a try.

7. Request a presentation via your generic email or contact form

Most major websites and companies have generic email addresses on their websites (e.g. info@domainname.com) or contact forms on their websites.

Typically, emails sent by them are handled by the company's assistants or support staff.

So to connect with the right person, just send a message through this channel and ask for an introduction. Something like this will work:

For best results, use a signature in your email that clearly describes who you are. If you use VAs to collect contact information for you, make sure their signature mentions the fact that they work for you.

8. Find out about us, contact or author pages

Sometimes finding an email address really is as simple as searching for the right page on your target's website.

Many companies list email addresses on Contact Us, About Us, or Know-Team pages.

If the site has a lot of content, it might even have author pages that include the author's email address.

It can sometimes be difficult to find these pages directly on your website. If you're having trouble finding them, try typing the following search terms into Google:

• website:example.com about
• website:example.com contact
• teamsite:example.com
• site:example.com + your contact name

While I've found using Google to be the best approach for this, you can also try entering these common URL formats into your browser:

• exemplo.com/contato
• exemplo.com/contato-nos
• exemplo.com/contato-me
• exemplo.com/sobre
• example.com/about-me
• example.com/about-us
• exemplo.com/equipe
• exemplo.com/nossa-equipe
• example.com/meet-the-team

9. Use Facebook

When people create a Facebook page, they often fill in as much information as they can and then forget about it. This includes email addresses.

Entered e-mail addresses can usually be found in the "About" area of ​​the Facebook page:

Since Facebook blocks web scrapers, this method can work even if the aforementioned email finder tools like Hunter or Rocket Reach can't find anything.

10. Ask people in your network for recommendations and introductions

If the person you're trying to reach is on LinkedIn (which they probably are), you can check to see if anyone in your network is connected to them.

Just go to the LinkedIn profile and look for common connections in the Highlights section of the profile page.

Once you see which of your contacts you can connect, email them or send them a LinkedIn message and ask for an introduction.

In addition to asking for introductions to specific, targeted prospects, you can also use referrals to add more leads to your prospect list.

This is usually best done after you've provided value.

For example, after writing a guest post for a website, I often ask the website editor if they can refer me to someone who might be interested in accepting a guest post from me.

If you've created a lot of value over the course of your engagement, they're usually more than happy to help.

Did I miss something?

There you have it - 10 ways to find someone's email address.

Just make sure you use them responsibly.