If you’re here, we suppose you already tried to find that email address with httl.com.vn/en’s Email Finder or Domain Search, which are the first places you should look at.
Chances are that you will be able to find the email address of your prospect in seconds.
However, occasionally, httl.com.vn/en might fail to return a result because there is simply not enough data on the public web.
You are reading: Find your email
That’s where this guide comes in. By following these detailed steps, you’ll be able to find your target’s email address in 99% of cases.
The tactics are ordered by efficiency. This means we recommend to follow them in order for the best results in a minimal time. You can take this checklist with you to easily walk through all these steps each time you need to find someone’s email address.
Let’s go email hunting!
1. Guess someone”s email address2. Search it on Google3. Check social media profiles4. Use Twitter”s advanced options5. Just reach out6. Search for email address on a company website7. Subscribe to prospect”s newsletter8. Check a WHOIS9. Ask for an introduction
1. Guess someone’s email address
This is one of the first things you should try before testing any of the further tactics.
It may sound obvious, but as practice shows, a lot of email addresses can be found in this simple way.
Make a guess based on the most common patterns
Companies often use consistent patterns when creating new email addresses for their employees.
If you know the first name, last name, and domain, you will be able to guess your target’s email address easily.
According to the study we conducted at httl.com.vn/en, 49.9% of the companies use the “{first}
example.com” email pattern.
After analyzing more than 12 million email addresses, we’ve found out that the most common formats are:
So all you need is just to test your guesses with these most common email patterns.
Assume based on known email addresses
Since most companies have standard formats for their email addresses, you can find a single personal email of someone in that company and extrapolate based on it.
For example, suppose you are looking for an email address of the CEO of Pied Piper Richard Hendricks, but on the company website you were only able to find the email address of Dinesh Chugtai, who is a Java programmer at the company.
What you do with this email address is extrapolate:
Dinesh Chugtai (dinesh
piedpiper.com) → first
piedpiper.com → Richard Hendricks (richard
piedpiper.com)
In case you don’t know the email address of someone working in your prospect’s company, we recommend checking Domain Search. The chances are that you’ll find an email of someone working for the same company as your prospect, and you’ll easily extrapolate the result.
Just enter your prospect’s company domain in the search box, and check for email patterns of other specialists who work there. To simplify the process, httl.com.vn/en suggests the most common pattern based on all of the emails from the same company that are publicly available on the web.
Previous email lookup methods are great but a bit time-consuming since you need to do everything manually.
So here are a few automations.
Automate guessing with Email Permutator
Email Permutator is a simple tool that will do all manual work for you. It figures out all possible email combinations in a single click.
All you need to do is to enter the name, surname, and domain name of the prospect, and you will get a massive list of email suggestions.
Magic happened, and the first suggestion is correct —it’s my email address (don’t hesitate to reach out to me and say hi).
There are a few tools similar to Email Permutator that you can try to automate your guessing process:
Ok, I found dozens of email suggestions, should I contact all of them?
Please don’t do that. The last thing you want to do is to risk your email addresses getting marked as spam or rejected due to the low-quality data.
Your sender score is an essential factor of email deliverability. The higher it is, the better placement inside recipients’ inboxes you have. The lower your score, the higher chances to be stuck in the junk folder.
So, at this point, you will need to make the list of your email suggestions clean, and verify all of the emails.
But how can I do it?
Confirm your guess with Email Verifier
httl.com.vn/en’s Email Verifier checks the validity of any email, so you won’t get any bounces.
Validations are made on multiple levels: format, domain information, response of the mail servers, and comparison with our unique base of 100+ million professional email addresses.
All you need to do is to enter your email guess into the search box and click “Verify.”
Let’s give the Email Verifier a try and verify the email address I use for my personal blog “irina
onsaas.me”.
Wait a moment…and magic happens.
You can see that this email address is valid and can be used safely.
With furnituremaisak.com, you can verify up to 50 email addresses a month absolutely free. If you need to verify more than one email address at a time, you can try the Bulk Email Verifier.
Read more: How to Verify Email Address Without Sending an Email
Verify your email address with Gmail
Gmail is a simple tool you can use for email verification if you weren’t able to do it with httl.com.vn/en’s Email Verifier.
Open Gmail, hit “Compose,” then click out of the “To” field and type in the list of email addresses, then hover over each email address to see if the email is connected to a Google account.
If it is, you’ll see the picture of the person you’re trying to find.
This technique may only work if the contact you are looking for has a Gmail-hosted email.
2. Search it on Google
If you weren’t able to find someone’s email address by guessing it, here is an effective tactic you should try next — search it on Google.
There is a lot of information on Google. However, if you do a simple search, you can find hundreds of irrelevant pages and will spend a lot of time searching for what you need.
That’s why I’m sharing a few hacks with you on how to use Google like a pro and make the most of its advanced search capabilities.
Dig in with Advanced Google Search
You have a couple of emails that you think are correct. Now it’s time to search them on Google and see if your hypothesis is precise.
For this, you can use Advanced Google search operators, which are the symbols or words in your query that helps to make search more precise.
Put your guesses on Google in a similar format “yourguess
email.com” and see if any search results appear.
Using “” in your search query telling Google to search only for the exact matches.
When you search, make sure to check the results for the company website, personal blog, or social media pages first.
Here is an example of how easy it is to find an email from Buffer’s Founder, Joel Gascoigne.
Perform a search with target keywords
Type in the name of the person whose email you are looking for and add such queries as “email,” “contact,” etc.
If the email address is published anywhere online, it will help you to narrow down the list and find only relevant results.
You can also experiment with adding other personal information to the queries such as position, previous companies, person worked for, city, etc.
Search company website with Google search operators
You would be surprised how much hidden useful information you can find on company websites. Email addresses are not an exception.
So what you need to do is search Google using the search operator query “site:example.com” as your root and add some modifiers, like on this example:
Here you can see how easy it is:
You can be creative with modifiers to make your search even more specific.
Also, if you have a suggestion that you are pretty sure is the correct email address, you can try to search it on the company website in this way:
site:example.com + suggestion
example.com
Don’t forget to verify your finds
As previously mentioned, don’t forget to verify your finds before sending emails. You can use the same proven trick with httl.com.vn/en’s Email Verifier or Gmail verification.
3. Check social media profiles
If you can find someone’s social media accounts, the chances are that you’ll be able to find your target’s email address there.
Here are a couple of tips on how to do it with Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
When trying to find bloggers or general company email addresses, Facebook can be an excellent source to check.
Just head over to the your target”s page and open the “About” section.
Most bloggers and small businesses put their emails in this section. However, you can also often see the info
email addresses that are not that effective if you want to do personalized outreach.
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For LinkedIn, you may need to connect with the prospect to see their email address and other personal information.
Once you are connected, open the prospect”s LinkedIn profile, click “Contact Info,” and the chances are that you’ll find what you are looking for here.
You can also check your prospect’s About section on LinkedIn, quite often people share their email addresses or email addresses of those who work with them directly there.
The most obvious way you may think of is to check the prospect”s bio on Twitter.
However, as the practice shows, this method has a pretty low success rate.
Since the bio is very limited in space, most people put other essential links and information here. Moreover, having a publicly listed email on Twitter (that could be easily scraped) increases the chances to get a lot of spam emails.
That’s why for Twitter, I suggest trying more advanced email lookup strategies.
Let’s check them out.
4. Use Twitter’s advanced options
Since sometimes people tweet their email addresses, you can search historical tweets to see if your target person has ever done it.
You can check it out using Twitter’s advanced search, which allows you to search for very specific information in selected Twitter accounts.
Let’s try to find an email address of Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover in this way.
All I need to do is to add a keyword…
…and identify the Twitter username:
And that’s it, I found Ryan’s email in 30 seconds in one of his tweets.
Another option of doing the same search is to enter this query into Twitter’s search box:
Some people try to hide their email from bots, and they replace “
” and “.” symbols with “at” and “dot”. So you can use these “symbols” as additional keywords for your search.
Search Twitter with Google
This technique is as simple as typing in the Google search the following query:
twitter.com/username + “keyword”
Note that for “username” you will need to have the person’s current Twitter handle. For “keyword” you can experiment with other relevant keywords such as “contact,” “email,” “email at,” etc.
5. Just reach out
If you weren’t able to find someone’s email address with any of the techniques mentioned above, try reaching out on social media, asking for a more specific email address, contacting info
emails, or even connecting with the company”s support via chat.
Reach out on Twitter
Don’t hesitate to find your prospects on Twitter and ask directly for their email address. You can quickly describe the reason you want to contact them or where you found their social media profile.
I do it quite often, and I noticed that the reply rate for these kinds of tweets is very high. Most prospects will quickly answer such a tweet.
Ask for the personal contact via a generic email
Usually, it’s effortless to find a generic email on a company website. It usually starts with “info” or “contact” +
domain.com.
At httl.com.vn/en, we analyzed about 38 million generic email addresses and found out that the most common templates that companies publish on their websites are:
If you write a short email describing who you are, who you need to contact, and why, the chances are that someone behind the generic email will provide you with a personal email address.
It really doesn’t hurt to ask.
If you can’t find a generic email address, you can send your message via the contact form on the company website.
Connect with the company’s support chat
There is always a human behind the company’s support chat. And the communication happens in real time, so the chances to get a reply even faster are higher.
Take this opportunity to drop a line to a customer support manager, I’m pretty sure that if you do this, you’ll get an email address of your target person very quickly.
6. Search for email address on a company website
A company website is a great source of information when you are looking for the company decision-makers and their email addresses.
At httl.com.vn/en, we’ve analyzed about 905K company websites, and have found out that 18.7% of them (around 169K) mentioned at least one email address.
As we noticed, there are a few specific pages on the company websites where email addresses are published more often:
About Page
On this page, you might find almost anything, from brief bios with personal social media accounts to detailed contact information of every company team member.
For example, on Teston’s “About Us” page, you can find email addresses of all their employees:
Contact Us Page
On the “Contact Us” page, you may often see generic contact forms, but some companies add contact information of the team members who can help with specific requests.
A great example is a Simply Do Ideas’ “Contact Us” page:
Author Page
Since most companies have blogs, another effective way to find email addresses is to visit the “Author Page.”
Usually, you need to click on the image of the blog post author (or their name), and you’ll be able to get the author”s personal information. In some cases, you can find all of the information right under the blog post in the author”s bio box.
For example, on The Next Web, you can do it in this way:
Some of your prospects may have personal blogs, and usually, it’s much easier to find their email addresses there. Just check “About” and “Contact” pages.
Some of your prospects may have personal blogs, and usually, it’s much easier to find their email addresses there. Just check “About” and “Contact” pages.
7. Subscribe to prospect’s newsletter
Many companies and bloggers use personal email addresses to send newsletters. This is an excellent way to build relationships and show that there’s a real human behind the emails.
1. Find opt-in form & subscribe
For example, here I’m subscribing to Andrew Chen’s newsletter. He is a startup investor at Andreessen Horowitz and ex-Uber Head of Growth.
Let’s enter an email address and subscribe to the newsletter.
2. Check your inbox
Check your inbox in a couple of minutes, and you will find a welcome email or the first part of the newsletter (or, in some cases, opt-in confirmation).
Also, you’ll get an email address.
Don’t hesitate to hit “Reply” and start the conversation. The chances that your prospect answers you are much higher than in the case of sending a completely cold email.
If you are a visible company in the industry and have a huge newsletter list, you may find some of your prospects have already subscribed to your newsletter. Most email marketing tools allow searching your list by target criterias (first name, last name, company, etc).
8. Check a WHOIS
If you are trying to find an email address of someone who owns a website or blog, you can do it with WHOIS.
WHOIS is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store basic information about a registered domain, such as domain owner contact information, domain availability status, and the company details.
All you need is to search the domain of your prospect on one of many websites that provide access to the WHOIS database. For example, on WHO.IS, Namecheap, or GoDaddy.
Let’s give it a try and search for the owner of “ahrefs.com” website.
WHOIS offers an option to hide the contact information from the public, so this method might not always work.
9. Ask for an introduction
Think whether you have an additional connection with your target. If so, it doesn’t hurt to ask for an introduction.
On social media, you can easily determine whether you have any shared connections.
Let’s take a look at this example: I want to connect with Typeform”s CEO Jaoquim Lecham, and all I have is his LinkedIn profile.
I can easily check if we have any mutual connections, and if there is someone who I know is well connected to Jaoquim (like my friend or colleague), I can quickly reach out to him or her and ask if he or she can make an introduction.
You can ask for an introduction using this short and straight to the point message:
“Hey , I saw you are connected to a . Mind making an introduction so I can ?”
Or you can just simply ask for the right email address to contact your target, and when contacting, mention the person who provided you with it.
Just drop a few lines, and that’s it.
Wrap up
If you tried to find someone’s email with httl.com.vn/en, and it failed to deliver you the email address you need, there are still a lot of tips and tricks for you to try.
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My advice is to start playing around with these tactics in descending order (if the first one fails, try the second one, and so on). As practice shows, eventually, with this list, you will be able to find the email address you are looking for.
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