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What are the ten best resources for finding "unfindable"email addresses?
Hello, and thank you for your request for the ten best resources for finding "unfindable" emails. The best sources I found to answer your question are YesWare, eReach, and Ahrefs, all of which provided expert analysis and accuracy testing of the email finding services discussed below. In short, the majority of the services below are rated 90% accurate and above with Clearbit, ContactOut, and Anymail Finder rated at 97%.
OVERVIEW
Many of the service below offer both paid and free options, depending on how you use them and many searches you perform. Because many of the best services provide both options, it's not really possible to identify which are the best paid or best free. For each of the providers below, I have provided an overview with key features and have outlined the pricing structure and accuracy rate. Note that some of these services provide web based platforms (Norbert, Hunter, and others), the majority are Chrome extensions and thus require you to have the Chrome browser installed. The list is not presented in any particular order.
TEN BEST EMAIL FINDER TOOLS
Clearbit is a Chrome extension designed to find sales emails. Search by either company name and the individual's first name or job title. You can also search just by the person's name. The results of your search appear in your Gmail and the extension gives you "access to 250MM contacts worldwide," according to the website.
Price: Free
ContactOut is an AI driven Chrome extension that finds email addresses and phone numbers, as well as links to social media profiles and personal websites. The extension allows you to export LinkedIn profiles and contact information into a Google spreadsheet or CSV file.
Price: Free, but eremedia.com reports that you are provided with only 99 free credits per day. They also report that a paid version for heavy users should be launched in February, 2017.
According to its website, "Toofr discovers business email addresses from the first and last names, and the company name or website. It uses millions of business email patterns and mail server results to give you industry-leading sending rates." Upload a bulk CSV file and it will find the email addresses at a speed based on your selected plan. Toofr's Chrome extension "allows you to guess emails from LinkedIn profiles, articles, directories and more," according to the website. eReach reports that with Toofr, "the drawback is that it often will return a list of potential email addresses that you then have to verify. So, while the correct email address is very likely in the top 3-5 results, you have to do the work (with Rapportive) to figure out which one is correct."
Price: 12 Credits Free with no obligations. Plans range from $29/month-$749/month or $290/year-$7,490/year.
With hunter, you enter a company's domain name and the site will "list all the email addresses of a company publicly available on the web," according to the website. Where available, name, title, phone and social media profiles are also identified. You can also search for an email by first and last name, plus the company website. hunter also shows whether or not the email address has been verified. hunter also offers a Chrome extension in addition to its web based platform.
Price: 150 free searches/month; Plans for heavy users and requiring CSV downloads range from $39/month-$319/month.
Find that Email bills themselves as "The Yellow Pages of Email." Their site says they "never use public data sources or guess emails." Find That allows you to bulk search and sync contacts with common CRM platforms. The site claims over 100MM verified emails.
AeroLeads is a Chrome extension that delivers both email addresses and business phone numbers. AeroLeads integrates with many common CRM platforms. AeroLeads also provides a paid Prospect Generation Service.
Anymail Finder is a Chrome extension and uses email patterns to generate the addresses. The company says it does a "direct server validation." You can search by name or domain or verify an email.
Enter the person's first and last name and company domain name and Norbert returns a verified email address. According to Yesware, "Norbert does not check for catchall addresses, and it limits the number of queries users can conduct (SMTP servers could block the service if pinged too frequently)."
Price: 50 free searches with account creation; $0.10/lead or monthly plans ranging from $49-$249, 20% discount for annual purchase.
Email checker verifies emails. So while it is not a finder, per se, if you have an email pattern (i.e. FirstInitialLastName@domain.com), enter it into Email Checker and it will verify its authenticity. According to the website, "it extracts the MX records from the email address and connect to mail server (over SMTP and also simulates sending a message) to make sure the mailbox really exist for that user/address."
Price: Free
Verify Email is also, as its name suggests, an email verification tool. If you think you know the email address or pattern, this could be a useful tool.
Price: 5 free per hour; Annual plans range from $9.95-$199.95; Single month plans range from $9.95-$149.95.
CONCLUSION
Many of the best email finders offer both free and paid options and most are accurate more than 90% of the time. Clearbit, ContactOut and Anymail Finder deliver accurate email addresses 97% of the time.
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