Are you struggling to find B2B emails needed to start commercial prospecting? This is a major obstacle that can be overcome in just a few minutes.

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

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

Why is it important to find a B2B lead’s email address? How to find free emails? What are the best tools for collecting professional emails?

Take the time to read our article. You will quickly find the solutions adapted to your business and your prospecting emails.

Why is it important to find the right email address?

Establishing a prospecting strategy without emails is like trying to learn to drive without a steering wheel. It’s ineffective.

Losing a prospect due to a lack of contact information is terribly frustrating. It is also very common for a salesperson or marketer to not have yet read our guide.

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

By obtaining the email address of your prospect’s company, you can add it to your database. The more information you collect about them, the more you can enrich your contact list. This will allow you to convert more efficiently by refining and segmenting your prospecting scenarios.

It is also the easiest way to send them specific tools, such as a white paper, offer them a meeting, or invite them to an event.

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In short, this 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 for determining a B2B prospect’s email address. Let’s start with the free methods.

How to find someone’s B2B email address for free?

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

Using the Email Generator
Finding an email address with a Google search
Finding an email address via LinkedIn
Via Twitter
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Finding an email address using the Email Generator

We’ve all been there at some point.

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

First, it is essential to ascertain your contact’s domain name.

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

Now that you know their domain name is .com, you just need to look for possible combinations, based on your contact’s first and last name.

Generally, a professional email address is based on many combinations

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Depending on the size of the target structure, you can determine an email address more easily. A new company will rely more on the first name, while a large company will use the first and last name.

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

Let’s say you need to contact Yamini Rangan, CEO of Hubspot.

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

Specify the information in Email Permutator
Copy the B2B email combinations generated
Paste them into the dedicated block for email recipients
Hover over 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.

You just need to 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 only display exact matches.

We won’t lie to you, it takes quite a bit of time.

How to find an email address on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the #1 B2B network in the world. All active professionals regularly update their account to be visible and easily locatable.

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

Search for your contact (first name + last name)
Click on their profile
Click on the “contact details” 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 a short time.

We’ll look at them a bit further down.

Finding an email address on Twitter

Although still not widely used in Spain, Twitter remains an excellent medium for obtaining an email address:

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

Finding an email address via a generic address

Generally, you can find generic addresses on the website of the company your prospect works for. They can be in this form:

Take the opportunity to ask for the email address of the person you are trying to reach, it costs nothing. Specifically, ask someone to give you an email address that can help you generate business. It turns out to be beneficial for them.

Trouver un mail via une adresse générique — Finding an email address via a generic address

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

If there is a chatbot, it’s a quick way to get in touch with someone from the company. If not, try Messenger, DMs on Instagram, their Tiktok account… at the risk of seeming very intrusive.

While all these techniques eventually yield concrete results, they have the disadvantage of being time-consuming. Move forward by using more effective paid tools.

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

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

Sometimes these are browser extensions, adapted software, or solutions developed by well-known 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 basis. You get free credits, perfect for testing solutions. Then, if you are satisfied, you pay. This is a good way to effectively compare the extensions and solutions that best suit you.

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 in a single click. In compliance with GDPR, the tool stands out with a validity rate of 98% (85% for catch-all domains). This allows for impressive deliverability – to avoid soft and hard bounces.

Trouver une adresse mail avec DropContact — FINDING AN EMAIL ADDRESS WITH DROPCONTACT

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

By installing the Appolo extension, you get access to 100 free credits per month. The platform’s big advantage? The ability to write your prospecting emails directly from the plugin. It can be connected to many CRMs. It has a tracker that allows you to monitor email opens.

Trouver une adresse mail avec Appolo — FINDING AN EMAIL ADDRESS WITH APPOLO

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

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

Trouver une adresse mail avec LeadIQ — FINDING AN EMAIL ADDRESS WITH LEADIQ

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

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

Trouver une adresse mail avec Lusha — FINDING AN EMAIL ADDRESS WITH LUSHA

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

This is one of the most effective Chrome extensions for finding company email addresses by scraping both LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, and target prospect websites.

Trouver une adresse mail avec Skrappr — FINDING AN EMAIL ADDRESS WITH SKRAPPR

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 connected directly to your usual CRMs to enrich data.

Trouver une adresse mail avec Kaspr.io — FINDING AN EMAIL ADDRESS WITH KASPR.IO

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

The extension finds email addresses by scraping several social networks, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. You can integrate Find that Email with over 500 additional tools, via Zapier.

Trouver une adresse mail avec FindThatEmail — FINDING AN EMAIL ADDRESS WITH FINDTHATEMAIL

LaGrowthMachine: Enrich your leads automatically

The advantage of paid solutions is that they can connect directly via Zapier to many Growth Marketing platforms.

With LaGrowthMachine, you can easily enrich your contacts automatically. Once you have gathered all possible information about your prospects’ business profile, you can develop effective multi-channel prospecting strategies.

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

Lead enrichment ensures the collection of as much information as possible to flesh out your copy and close deals in an instant