Find Anyone’s Email Address (Most Accurate, Fast & Free Ways)

You come across a hot lead, an ideal customer profile, or an influencer who could skyrocket your brand's visibility. But there's one problem: you don’t have their email address.

It's a common challenge that can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack.

In this blog, we have shared some of the ways you can find someone’s email address and what you should avoid while looking for an email address!

Finding someone's email is no easy task!

But what’s even more difficult is finding their “correct” email address.

Correct or valid here means an email address that is reachable and won't bounce back the emails you send to them. And this highly depends on the method you use for email search.

While there are manual methods, guesswork, search hacks, and email lookup tools, that can do the job for you – if the data is not accurate it will only lead to a bad-quality list and poor campaign performance.

Now let’s have a look at the different ways in which you can execute your email search.

There are multiple techniques available to search leads manually but big companies and lead generation businesses cannot afford to invest resources in them. Why?

Their needs/ requirements are huge and can be fulfilled with tools that work on automation.

Hence, the best and fastest way to find someone’s email address is to use an Email Finder.

It can help you find email addresses with the most accurate results in seconds.

All you would need is a tiny bit of their information like their name, and website/company name, and the tool will do the rest of the work for you.

While there are many email finder and enrichment tools in the market, not all are accurate or offer pre-verified emails. So, make sure to pick only the tools that offer reliable data without burning a hole in your pocket.

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Many sales intelligence and b2b databases such as Apollo, Zoominfo, Saleshandy, etc have huge contact bases ready and can help in finding leads’ email addresses.

Such databases usually offer advanced search filters to narrow down your search to the most relevant people you want to reach in a company. For example,

Once you have identified your ICP, you can search for similar companies and then look up people from the same company along with their contact. You can even filter further based on role, industry, etc.

The only downside here sometimes results might include outdated data as the results are not fetched in real-time. To avoid this you need to look for a tool that offers pre-verified data or run your lists again through an email verifier.

In the case of huge lists, this re-verification will take longer, and the cost also doubles.

This works best if you are looking for b2b prospects on LinkedIn and need their contact details to reach out to them and nurture them.

You can target individual accounts or even search with filters for profiles that match your ICP and Clearout’s LinkedIn Chrome Extension will extract the email address and other details of those profiles even when they are not connected with you on LinkedIn.

All of the data is pre-verified and includes details such as your prospect’s business & personal email address, phone number, location, company details, job description, etc.

Once you have successfully installed the extension, you will find a sidebar on LinkedIn.

Now you can visit your lead’s LinkedIn profile and simply add them to your lead list from the sidebar. You can even use the LinkedIn search to find relevant profiles that match your ICP and extract their details directly from the search page.

Clearout’s extension also works smoothly with LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

So you can search for as many profiles as you want without any limitations and extract the data in bulk from LinkedIn Profile Pages, Search Results, Sales Navigator Leads or Accounts, Connections, Invitations, and more.

You also get the option to automate your data extraction process by defining the search criteria on LinkedIn and providing the list name or the number of pages to be extracted.

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If you don’t have a huge list to look up, using free lookup tools would be the most affordable and no-cost way to find more valid emails.

However, you need to pick a tool with a decent accuracy rate. There are some known tools too that offer a free lookup tool, free credits, or limited monthly lookups including:

One of the easiest and free ways to find an individual's email is using their LinkedIn profile URL.

All you need to do is enter their LinkedIn profile URL on Clearout’s Free Reverse Lookup Tool and in seconds you will have their email and other insights on your screen.

The best part about using any of the Clearout Tools is that every data you get is pre-verified. This means you never have to spend more time re-verifying the found emails or worry about the reliability of the data provided.

The first place we go to find something is Google. But looking for what you need in this ocean of information might be hard and take up a lot of time.

However, there are a few tactics and keywords which can make things a bit better.

You can use Advanced Google Search Operators to perform a target keyword search.

You need to type in the name of the person you are looking for and queries like contact, email, or other personal details like website name, company name, post, city, etc.

Your query might look like:

[full name] + contact + Email
[full name} + [website name] + email
[full name] + email + post
[full name] + phone number + email

You can also search for email addresses on the company website and find a lot of useful information. You just need to follow this format to search:
site:website + name + email

💡Pro-Tip: Remember to run the obtained email addresses through an email verifier to ensure the found emails are valid and deliverable.

Finding email addresses on LinkedIn can be easier.

It allows you to export your connections. This means if you’re connected with your prospect on LinkedIn then you may be able to get your hands on their email address.

Here are the steps to export LinkedIn connections: Here are the steps to export LinkedIn connections:

Step 1 – Click on the dropdown menu Me at the top of your LinkedIn homepage, then go to Settings & Privacy.

Step 2 – Go to the Privacy tab, scroll down to find the option- Getting a copy of your data and click on it:

Step 3 – Check the connections box and hit the Request archive.

In a few minutes, you’ll receive an email with all your connections’ email addresses in a handy spreadsheet. However, you should use this method responsibly to save yourself from losing your LinkedIn account.

People include their email addresses and contact details in their bio section or tweets but to hide them from bots many people use a dot instead of “.” and at instead of “@”.

Now you need to go to the advanced search option of Twitter and look for the words "at" and "dot" in your target person's tweets. To narrow down the results, you can also put words like "email," "contact," or "reach" in your search.

You can perform the same search or simply email (to: accountname) in the Twitter search box as well to find your target’s email address.

There's a Gmail trick that can assist you in finding email addresses.

If you have a Gmail account, you can often use this handy way to find out if an address is correct. By pressing the ‘Compose' button on the left-hand side of your screen, you can start a new message box.

Fill in the email address you guessed for the person you're looking for in the 'To' field.

A picture and contact information will usually show when you hover your mouse over an address.

Well, this trick is worth trying if you have a specific person to reach out to.