Check Their Website
Many website owners include their email addresses on their About, Contact, and Team Members pages. They often use the words “at” and “dot” to keep bots from finding their email addresses too easily. Team pages often display cards of each team member with contact information. All these pages sometimes include a clickable email address that opens in your default email app.
Many websites include a contact form rather than providing an email address. You could ask for the email address you need. The responses are sent to your email address, providing you with their email address. Sometimes, these are generic email addresses that don’t check for replies, but it’s possible to get an email address that you can use.
For more information about contact forms for WordPress, see the article Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins.
Subscribe to Their Newsletter
Subscribing to newsletters is an excellent way to contact someone. Publishers often include their contact information in their newsletters. Some even send the newsletter from their personal email address. Sometimes the newsletter is sent from an info address, such as [email protected]. This could also be an email the person uses. You can reply to the newsletter to see if you get a response.
Check Your Email List
If there’s a possibility that the person you want to contact has subscribed to your email newsletter, then you could view your list of subscribers to find their email addresses. This is more likely if you have a large subscriber base, are a large company, run in the same circles, or are well-known in your industry.
Although each platform is different, most work in a similar fashion. Most provide you with a list of your subscribers that you can access online or download and view in a spreadsheet. These lists include the name and email address of each subscriber. Log in to your email newsletter provider, choose the email list you want to see, and then view your contacts. You can sort and search by name, company, etc.
For more information about building your email list, see the article 10 Reasons Why You Need to Build an Email List.
Use Google
Google is a great way to find information. Although you can use Google to find information such as an email address, the results may be difficult to use unless the person has a unique name or you have some information to help identify them. Even my name is so common that you’ll get too many results, and it can be difficult to know which is which.
For the best results, use Google’s advanced search features. This includes using identifiers such as their place of work, occupation, what they’re known for, where they live, and operators such as the plus sign and quotations. You can search for their email or their place of work to find a work email.
Search for their name, an identifier to help narrow the search, and add a keyword such as “+ email”, “+contact”, “+contact information”, etc., to your search. You might need to try several of these options to find the email you’re looking for.
To search a company’s website for email addresses, enter “site:example.com + name + email”. You might need to try several variations, such as “firstname.lastname” in place of their name, add the company’s name, or even add the domain name.
You can use these search features to find emails for company websites, personal blogs, social media pages, and more. To find an email through social media, simply type the social media URL, the person’s name, and the keyword (such as “email”).
Ask Them for Their Email Address
You could always simply ask someone for their email address. Be sure to include the reason you need their email address. This will help ensure a positive response.
The easiest way to ask them is by getting in touch with them on social media. You could ask within a social media comment, direct message, chat box, contact form, generic email address, etc. Most companies include a generic email address such as info, contact, sales, support, hello, mail, etc. Add these to their company name and verify if the email address works.
If you’re not already connected with them, you could also have someone to introduce you. We often have a lot of contacts, and we sometimes have contacts in common with the person we want to meet. This is an excellent use of your network. Most social media platforms show if you have mutual connections.
How to Guess Their Email Address
It’s possible to guess someone’s email address. This is especially helpful if you know their company name or domain name. Many company email addresses follow a few simple patterns. This is easier if you have the email address of someone else at the company since this provides the pattern.
Most company email addresses follow these types of patterns:
If the email address structure doesn’t follow one of these patterns, try similar patterns. Companies prefer simple patterns most of the time because they don’t want their email addresses to be difficult for clients to remember.
Verifying the Email Address
You should verify any email address before sending your message. You’ll get a better response to your email if you’ve sent it to the correct person. This will also help to ensure your email doesn’t bounce. Also, you won’t have to wonder if the email was correct, and it helps keep your email from being marked as spam. There are a few ways to verify email addresses.
Verifying the email is especially important if you’ve gotten several email address patterns that might work for the email address you’re looking for. You could send an email to every address to verify which is correct, but this could get your email marked as spam. You should also verify the email address if you’ve found it in a search.
The best option is to use an email verifier, such as the one from hunter.io. Simply enter the email address and select to verify. You’ll then see a response showing if the email address is valid or not.