I wonder where to get email addresses for cold mailing.
http://hunter.io
I wonder where to get email addresses for cold mailing.
Often you can find generic addresses like sales@ info@ contact@ on their website I'm not sure if the right person will get my email then!?
What do you think about services like hunter.io to get "better" email contacts? Or do you have any other suggestions?
I've used hunter for a week. I had hit and miss successes. I was trying to reach black women in tech, which is actually very difficult as I found many of them only had linkedin accounts and no other social accounts or personal websites. Therefore this was a challenge for me because Linkedin blocks apps such as hunter. But it did work when I did find some ones personal website.
Otherwise I would say take a look at the BAMF bible. It has some good tricks on acquiring email addresses. Apparently if a person connects with you, there is a trick where you can export all of your connections email addresses. Hope that helps!
How would you differentiate cold e-mailing from spamming?
It basically is spamming. Legal definitions vary by region, but it's the online equivalent of knocking on someone's door and trying to sell them something or sending them junk mail.
Unfortunately, what's good for the individual often comes with negative externalities for society as a whole.
What's your target market? LinkedIn or business sites have been good for finding names to contact.
My target are agencies or developers with "professional" apps.
I do find the names on LinkedIn but obviously don't get their email. Or I should message them on Linked directly you mean?
Hi Felix, how are you? To get emails from Linkedin profiles you can use the SalesQL extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/free-linkedin-email-finde/mlhacebjlefifkldmkbilohcaiednbik
it also captures everything from the Linkedin profile (main company, industry, size, person background, skills, etc) so you can create personalized campaigns.
Other solutions compared:
(I'm the founder of SalesQL)
So there are plenty of tools for doing what you need :)
cheers! Thanks for sharing :)
Hey, just reading a few of the comments here. Cold outreach is still a great way to get new customers, but yes - it can get spammy if not done right.
Two important points: make sure your targeting is on point, and take time to understand your prospect. Don't just blanket email people - we all get those emails and most of us ignore or mark them as spam!
To achieve the above, you either need to put the time into Googling/data mining or use a data provider that can provide super targeted prospects. Shameless plug at this point - this is why we set up Coldlytics
hunter's good. check out also https://www.voilanorbert.com/
I think Hunter is good.
Generally speaking, you'll see much higher performance if you address your email to a real (and relevant) person directly.
You can sometimes use the 'about' or 'team' page on their site to find out the relevant person's name.
Otherwise, check LinkedIn and Twitter.
As for the email address, you can be pretty sure it's some combination of FirstName and LastName (eg
firstname@,firstname.lastname@,f.lastname@etc).You can run these permutations through a service like https://neverbounce.com/ to check which ones are real email addresses.
Hope that helps!
thanks, valuable input :)