Failproof method to find any prospect's email address

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How to find the right person to contact with Google

Before you find someone's email address, it's important to make sure you're contacting the right person. For example, if you want to reach out to a potential client, it helps to get in touch with the business's founder, co-founder or the manager who oversees the department related to your services.

Search for the role of the person you're looking for and their company name.

Example:

This also works for smaller businesses where it makes sense to reach out directly to the founder or co-founder:

If you can't find the most relevant person to contact, you can send this message to anyone from the company whose email address you can find:

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How to look up your contact's email format or email address

Congrats, you found the right person to contact! Now how do you find their email address?

A. Look up the email format that your contact's company uses

Use a service like Hunter. Enter your contact's company into their search and they'll show you the email format the company uses.

Based on the company's email format, you can smart guess your contact's email address.

For example, if your contact's name is Sam Vy and their company email format is
firstinitial[email protected], then their email address would most likely be [email protected].

B. Use these keywords to Google someone's email

You can search for "{Name} {company domain} email" on Google and sometimes the results may show the email address of the person.

If no email addresses show for the person you're looking for, you can try looking up the emails of a few other people at the company to see what email format they use and smart guess your contact's email address.

C. If you can't find the company's email format anywhere, their company email addresses are likely in one of these widely used formats

firstname[email protected]
firstinitial[email protected]
[email protected]

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How to verify their email address

Copy and paste your smart guessed email address into one of these free email verifiers and it'll let you know whether the email address works or not.

VerifyEmailAddress.org
Hunter Email Verifier

That's it, now you can reach out to almost anyone in the world (apparently Beyoncé changes her email every week so she may be harder to get a hold of).

Of course, finding someone's email address is an important step but only the first step. Here are a few proven templates to reach out.

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