If you already know the Rapportive email trick, you can skip this post. If not, you’re going to want to watch this short video. It shows you how to find email addresses with Rapportive. Thumbs up if you came here from SlideShare.
It’s just that easy. Take a person’s name, generate variations for their email addresses, and search for them in Google (using Rapportive). One easy way to generate email variations is to access this spreadsheet (bit.ly/rapportiveleads) created by the folks at Contactually.
Know any other tricks for finding email addresses? If so, please share. It would make our day!
Transcript:
Hey everybody, Kyle Porter here showing you a quick tool on how to guess people’s email addresses when you dont know them.
It’s called Rapportive and it’s a really simple tool that we’ve talked about before in the past. I want you to
start by going to rapportive.com and downloading the plug in.
You’ll have to follow a few prompts to navigate the chrome store. Once its installed, super simple just open up your gmail account and we’re going to guess an email address for a gentlemen named Craig Hyde at Rigor. So we know that Rigor’s domain is rigor.com so we’re going to start by guessing craig@rigor.com
Notice on the right-hand side nothing updated. Now we’ll try chyde@rigor.com, a popular convention for email.
Notice again nothing populated.
Lastly we’re going to try Craig.hyde@rigor.com and boom. Notice that his social profiles are automatically updated inside the gmail box?
This is an easy way for me to guess someone’s email address without even knowing it. Thanks for tuning in and hope you enjoy.
Hi Kyle,
Rapportive is a great tool for Gmail. I’d also recommend Xobni for Outlook users, which can do the same kind of social profile lookup,
But here’s a time saver for the Rapportive method you described in the video. Rather than type, delete and retype emails, try this free guesser: http://linksy.me/find-email
You type in the first and last name and the domain name, and it does the work of trying all the permutations, testing against some common social channels. It’s not as robust as Xobni or Rapportive yet, but it does at least save some time. You can always cut and paste the suggestions it gives into Rapportive later.
Disclaimer: the creator is a friend and fellow founding member of Seattle Social Media Club, but we work at different companies.
I have found http://www.mailtester.com to be effective as well. It will either confirm the email address is correct, or does not exist on the server or let you know the server doesn’t accept such requests.
http://www.BriteVerify.coim
Excellent tip. Never heard of Rapportive before.
Thanks, Kyle!
Rapportive is a very nice service/addon.
Other Gmail great addons are Brandmymail and Yesware.