How do you find influencers to start off your influencer marketing strategy via an email campaign or to add to your Contact Management System or Sales Pipeline? Email Hunter (or just Hunter) is a great place to start, they have a FREE package that can get you started and reasonably priced and feature rich packages after that.
Are you doing influencer outreach? Do you pitch to journalists or are looking for guests or thought leaders to be on your radio show? This tool will find anyone’s email address – well to a point as noted below…any non webmail email address – i.e. gmail.
Email Hunter offers 150 searches with the free plan. For most people, that’s plenty.
Here’s how the basics work. Type in the domain name of the company the person you want to contact works for. If a specific email address isn’t located, Email Hunter will give you enough information to make an educated guess.
Each month you’ll get 150 free searches without choosing a pricing plan.
As Email Hunter has 3 built in tool, and the 150 FREE plan is best used if you understand what is a request on Hunter?
Each of these functionalities count as 1 of your FREE searches on their own.
Domain Search The search of a domain name that returns the email addresses with this domain found on the web.
Email Finder The search of an email address from a first name, a last name and a domain name.
Email Verification The verification of an email address to check if it is deliverable or not.
Email Hunter comes with a series of integrations like HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce and ZoHo CRM and also works with Zapier to create your own integrations. Here are tutorials on integration and some of the basic usage techniques. https://hunter.io/help/articles
Here’s
the answers from EMAIL HUNTER to some of their Frequently Asked Questions
Can I search for personal webmail addresses?
Since Email Hunter is built for professional contacts we choose not to return webmail addresses in our tools.
Can I find the email pattern for a specific domain?
Yes, if there are at least a few personal email addresses found for a domain name, the search also returns the most likely email pattern. For example, {first}.{last}.
Can I filter and search for specific people in a domain search?
In the dashboard, if a likely email pattern is found for a domain, a link “Find Someone” also appears. Then you can type a first name and last name to find a precise email address.
What does the Domain Search do?
The Domain Search lets you find all the email addresses using one given domain name (for example, “hunter.io”) and appearing publicly somewhere on the web.
What does the color next to each email address indicate?
The colors next to each email address indicate our estimation of the probability the email address is actually correct. You can hover over them to see the exact probability showed as a percentage.
What is a domain name?
You can think of domain names like an address, they identify one or more IP addresses. Here are a few examples: hunter.io, google.com, hubspot.com
Why are there no results for email addresses for certain domain names?
There can be several reasons as to why no email addresses were returned in a search:
We have not crawled web pages where those email addresses appear yet.
The company using this domain has a limited presence online.
The company uses another domain name for their emails.
The websites where these email addresses appear don’t allow crawlers.
How does Hunter get the email addresses returned Domain Searches?
Email Hunter visits the whole web to collect email addresses. When you search a website on Hunter, it returns all the email addresses using the same domain (i.e. finishing with @company.com) we found on the web. The URLs where the email addresses were found and the date they were found are also returned in the search.
What information can I find with the Domain Search?
With the Domain Search you’ll be able to find the publicly email addresses associated with a domain and some other additional information associated with the email address, when available:
- Full name
- Phone number
- Job title
- Twitter profile
- LinkedIn profile
As you can see Email Hunter can be quite a valuable tool in locating the email addresses of influencers, though leaders, potential radio show guests and sales leads. With their FREE 150 searches a month plan you can’t really go wrong with giving them a try.
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