Are you struggling to find the B2B emails you need to start your sales prospecting? This is a significant hurdle that can be overcome in just a few minutes.

You just need to know where to look and what tools to use to collect your prospects’ professional emails.

Most LaGrowthMachine clients use email finders to automatically enrich their databases and optimize their prospecting techniques.

Why is it crucial to find a B2B prospect’s email address? How can you find it for free? What are the best tools for collecting professional emails?

Take some time to read our article. You’ll quickly find solutions tailored to your business and your prospecting emails.

Why is it important to find the right email address?

Establishing a prospecting strategy without email addresses is like trying to learn to drive without a steering wheel. Ineffective.

Missing out on a lead due to a lack of contact information is terribly frustrating. It’s also very common for a salesperson or marketer who hasn’t read our guide yet!

While there are other criteria you can rely on to drive your workflow (phone number, LinkedIn account), few will be as relevant as an email address.

At LaGrowthMachine, this is therefore the data we seek to recover as a priority, to allow you to do multichannel prospecting with a very low failure rate!

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By obtaining your prospect’s professional email, you can integrate it into your database. The more information you collect about them, the more you can enrich your contact list. This will allow you to convert more effectively by refining and segmenting your prospecting scenarios.

It’s also the easiest way to send them specific tools, like a white paper, offer them an appointment, or invite them to an event.

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In short, it is the central pillar of any prospecting strategy. Like any treasure, it’s never easy to access.

Fortunately, there are several more or less refined techniques to determine a B2B prospect’s email address. Let’s start with free methods.

How to find the right B2B email address for someone for free?

Among the free techniques, some are more effective than others. Here are our favorites:

Go through Email Generator
Find an email address with a Google search
Find an email address via LinkedIn
Via Twitter
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Finding an email address via Email Generator

We’ve all been there at one point or another.

Whether for press relations, B2B prospecting, or forgetting notes after a meeting, we’ve all tried to guess a professional email… with varying degrees of success.

Firstly, it is essential to confirm your contact’s domain name.

It’s simple, just go to Google and type in the company you want to contact. Let’s take the example of Hubspot.

Now that you know their domain name is “.com”, all you have to do is look for possible combinations, based on your contact’s first and last name.

Generally, a professional email address is built around many combinations

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Depending on the size of the target organization, you can determine an email more easily. A startup will more readily use the first name, while a large company will use the first and last name.

Fortunately, there’s a great tool that allows you to display the correct combinations in record time. It’s called Email Permutator.

Let’s say you need to get in touch with Yamini Rangan, CEO of Hubspot.

You know her name, first name, and Hubspot’s domain name. All you have to do is:

Enter the information on Email Permutator
Copy the generated B2B email combinations
Paste them into the dedicated email recipient field
Hover your mouse to detect the email address where the photo will appear.

Finding an email address on Google

Thanks to Google’s advanced search, you can quickly find a prospect’s email address.

Simply go to the browser and type the email address of the person you are interested in. By using quotation marks, you will ask the search engine to display only exact matches.

We won’t lie, it’s quite time-consuming.

Finding an email address on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the number 1 B2B network worldwide. Every active professional updates their profile regularly to be visible and easily reachable.

LaGrowthMachine scrapes multiple data sources to enable you to do multichannel prospecting, including LinkedIn.

Our tool automatically enriches your prospect file to provide you with the maximum amount of information.

Simply import your file into our software, and we’ll take care of the rest!

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It’s increasingly rare, but some CEOs, communicators, or marketers still display their email address… The simplest way is still to check:

Search for your contact (last name + first name)
Click on their profile
Click on the “contact info” link, under their profile picture

That’s for the ultra-simplified search. Nowadays, there are many scraping tools that allow you to retrieve email addresses in no time.

We’ll cover them a bit further down.

Finding an email address on Twitter

Although still little used in France, Twitter remains an excellent indirect marketing solution to get your hands on an email address:

Search Google for your contact’s Twitter account
Click on their profile
Inspect their bio

Finding an email address via a generic address

Generally, you will very easily find generic addresses on the website of the company where your prospect works. They can take this form:

Unfortunately, we only record a very low conversion rate for these addresses.

To address this problem, LaGrowthMachine will always try to scrape the business email and the lead’s personal email. This way, you can optimize the conversion rate on the email channel (discover how through our guide on email automation)!

Take the opportunity to ask for the email address of the person you are trying to reach, it costs nothing. In concrete terms, you are asking someone to provide you with an email address that can help them generate business. It’s beneficial for them.

Subject: Connection Request

Hello, SuperBoîte team.

I saw your latest marketing campaign for {{companyName}} which I found particularly inspired. I would like to run the same kind of campaign for {{identity.companyName}}.

To discuss this, I would need to speak directly with {{firstname}}{{lastname}} or the {{jobTitle}}.

Would you be so kind as to provide me with their contact details?

Thank you and have a great day,

Even better, take advantage of all the channels offered by your prospect’s company to try to contact them.

If there’s a chatbot, it’s a quick way to get in touch with someone from the company. Otherwise, try Messenger, DMs on Instagram, their TikTok account… at the risk of seeming very intrusive.

If all these techniques eventually yield concrete results, they have the drawback of being very time-consuming. Step up your game by using paid, but more effective tools!

What are the most effective paid tools for finding the right email address?

If you want to save yourself long, tedious hours of work, the easiest way is to use paid email finders.

These are sometimes browser extensions, adapted software, or solutions developed by recognized prospecting or growth marketing solutions… with varying prices.

These are the fastest ways to quickly retrieve data from social networks. They are particularly effective for scraping email addresses available on LinkedIn.

All these plugins work on a freemium model. You get free credits, perfect for testing the solutions. Then, if you are satisfied, you pay. This is an excellent way to effectively benchmark the extensions and solutions that suit you best.

The list of extensions and solutions for quickly finding B2B email addresses

DropContact – Free version – From €24/month for 1000 searches

With DropContact, you can enrich and deduplicate your contacts with one click. GDPR compliant, the tool stands out with a validity rate of 98% (85% for catch-all domains). This results in impressive deliverability.

Finding an email address with DropContact

Appolo.io – 100 free credits per month with the extension – $49/month for the Basic version

By installing Appolo’s extension, you get access to 100 free credits per month. The platform’s big advantage? Being able to write your prospecting emails directly from the plugin. It can be connected with many CRMs. It includes a tracker to monitor email opens in real-time.

LeadIQ 15 credits per week – $60/month for the starter version

Integrated with Sales Navigator, LeadIQ allows you to verify emails directly. In addition to building your lead list directly from LinkedIn, you can enrich it with other B2B information.

Lusha 5 free credits per month – $29/month for 480 monthly credits

With Lusha, you get the email and phone number of desired LinkedIn accounts. You can integrate the extension with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Outreach, SalesLoft, and Zoho to enhance your B2B prospecting strategy. Unused credits roll over from month to month. Convenient.

Skrapp.io – 50 free credits per month – $49/month for 1000 monthly credits

This is one of the most effective Chrome extensions for finding professional email addresses by scraping LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, and the websites of targeted prospects.

Kaspr – 50 free credits – €45/month with CRM integration

Kaspr is a 100% French extension that allows you to retrieve the phone numbers and email addresses of your LinkedIn prospects. It can be plugged directly into your usual CRMs to enrich your data.

Find that email – 50 free credits per month – starter pack at $29/month

The extension allows you to find email addresses by crawling various social networks, including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. You can integrate Find that Email with over 500 complementary tools via Zapier.

Finding an email address with FindThatEmail

LaGrowthMachine: Enriching Leads Automatically

The advantage of paid solutions is being able to connect them directly via Zapier to numerous Growth Marketing platforms.

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Discover our article on webhooks to learn more about their use and benefits!

With LaGrowthMachine, you easily enrich your contacts in an automated way. After collecting maximum information on your prospects’ business profiles, you can thus develop effective multichannel prospecting strategies.

Build strong commercial relationships with your leads via Twitter, LinkedIn, or email thanks to the information gathered before launching your campaigns.

For your information, here are the results of one of our multichannel campaigns:

Enriching your leads ensures you gather maximum information to enhance your copywriting and close deals in no time.

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To remember:

A good prospecting strategy is based on verified B2B emails
There are free techniques to retrieve professional emails, but they are tedious and time-consuming
Many freemium extensions allow you to collect information with one click
Link your email finder to your CRM and your Growth Marketing solution like LaGrowthMachine to convert effectively

Finding an Email Address: The Different Methods

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