Integrating Email Finders With Data Sources To Reach Out Potential Prospects

Posted by Epicforce Tech on January 14th, 2020

Discovering prospects used to be an uphill task. That's changed over the last couple of years with the sharp rise in email finding tools and large data sources. Surprisingly, not everyone knows how they work and how they can be utilized best. I will examine the options with brutal honesty.

This article explains

Which emails you should trust?

Who are the email finder companies?

What are the data sources that email finders can convert into prospects?

What are the types of emails and can you trust them?

You will receive three types of emails from email finders.

Verified email addresses:

The verified emails do not lay in a database. You enter the first, last name and the company domain. For example, Steve Smith, cricketaustralia.com and it generates email address like steve.smith@cricketaustralia.com or s.smith@cricketaustralia.com and then checks it with their mail records. If it matches, the email address exists.

Advantage

The delivery rate is outstanding because the check is clear and new.

Disadvantage

This is not permitted by every server. The average is 1 in 5.

Scrapped Emails:

Scrapped emails are gathered when the company has visited millions of websites over the internet to see where people have posted their emails e.g. their "contact" page.

Advantages

It ensures that you don't need a name to locate addresses. You enter the website only and the email finder will present any emails it has on the website.

Disadvantage

It has a dismal rate of delivery. It is not targeted so that you may not get to know the person's name. An e-mail published in a 2010 forum might not be valid today.

Guessed Emails:

The company digs up a list of e-mails such as s.smith@cricketaustralia.com and speculates that the David Warner’s e-mail is d.warner@cricketaustralia.com.

Advantage

If an email cannot be verified, it may be helpful to guess especially if the company has a distinct pattern. Some businesses like ‘Goldman Sachs’ have the same pattern of 99 percent of their e-mails.

Disadvantage

Abysmally low delivery rate.

Here are some common characteristics of companies that find email address

Individual Search:

Yes, you just enter the full name and the company domain and the email finder will dig up the email address either by pinging the server or sifting through database or just by guessing the pattern. If you enter the domain only, they will try to retrieve all the emails they have from their database.

Uploading in bulk:

You can upload 10,000s of names with websites in an excel file in one go and download the results later.

API

Many businesses have an API that allows you to request and retrieve data directly like a single search, mostly for integration into their own software.

Some email finding companies and what they offer

Findemailaddress.co

This is the perfect email finder that provides 98 percent accurate results. It is an email verifier as well. You just need to add the name and the company domain and this email address finder will take care of the rest.

Advantages:

The email addresses that it finds are verified through valid algorithms. It also has a bulk email finder feature. But its accuracy is the main element that makes it ahead of the pack.

Disadvantage:

Currently, it does not offer a Linkedin extension.

Hunter.io:

It has a huge database, based on scraped emails. This means that if you just upload a single domain, they’ll provide plenty of email addresses.

Advantage

If you have no names and want to find as many emails as possible from a business, then Hunter is a good choice.

Disadvantage

It charges for any kind of searched email, whether it’s verified or not.

Some other effective email finders are voilanorbert.com and anyemailfinder.com.

How to generate potential leads using the email finders?

There are plenty of email finders, so the major issue now is to find the right names and domains to feed the email finder.

Here is a list of options to get this data.

Followerwonk:

Followerwonk is a resource for examining and downloading Twitter data. You just need to search the correct accounts based on your product. For example, if you are selling vehicle insurance, you need to target vehicle dealers or rent-a-cars.

It allows you to download 10,000s of those accounts into a file and then you can transfer that list to the email finder.

Buzzsumo

Buzzsumo allows you to access twitter data for up to 10,000 rows, but can archive all those who reposted a tweet. Download the file containing those who shared the tweet and you will get some of the names and domains. Finally, use that to find email address.

Crunchbase

Previously, Crunchbase allowed you to download their data sets of thousands of companies, including the founder's name and the domain. There is a registration process to obtain this data now.

Builtwith

The files in Builtwith include names, job descriptions, emails and social accounts, expenses, what software they use, their location and more.

It further offers a wide range of tools for specific tasks like tech search, keyword search and keyword lists.

Dux-soup

The Dux-Soup chrome extension searches for a job title and location on Google and provides you this data to upload them to the email finder.

What do you get when you’re done?

Once you go through this whole process you get a whole list of email addresses as well as precious data regarding the potential leads. So now all you need is a catchy email and you are ready to kick start you email marketing strategy.

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