Fahad Manzur
Today, let’s figure out how can we find email addresses on LinkedIn. Email is still the most common way for people to communicate in the business world. In spite of the rise of social networking and real-time communication tools, email remains the primary form of communication for most businesses.
Whether you’re sending an email to a potential client or prospective talent, the most important thing that you need to do is to be sure that you deliver your message to the right person. While you can find email addresses on your own through social media and search engines like Google, using an email search tool is the best way to do this. Now, there are plenty of such tools out there, but one that caught our attention recently is this nifty email finder called ContactOut.
ContactOut is a tool that allows you to find email addresses by searching for a person’s name and company. Furthermore, it gives you the ability to find social media profiles and phone numbers.
Just how well does this tool deliver, though? Read on, and we’ll take a look at ContactOut and see if it’s worth your time.
How does ContactOut work?
The main feature of this tool is a Chrome extension that adds an email search overlay on top of LinkedIn and Github. It reveals the email addresses and other contact details of your leads once you visit their profile on either site. If no email address is available, that should not be a problem. You can also search for your lead’s professional email address using their current company’s domain name.
Once you find the email address that you were looking for, you can then add it to your contact list in ContactOut. You can save your search results for later use, or if you come across a particularly useful profile, you can also share it with your team.
ContactOut’s features
As mentioned earlier, ContactOut primarily comes in the form of a Chrome extension that finds the contact information of people on GitHub and LinkedIn. The extension adds a sidebar on top of any LinkedIn page, and this lets you reveal the contact details of your leads when you visit their profile. You can also find the contact information of everyone that comes up in your LinkedIn people searches. The tool then lets you save and share your lead’s contact details, and you can access your shared email addresses in a dashboard that you can access via the extension or the sidebar.
The dashboard has a simple, intuitive design, and it lets you seamlessly organize your contacts into folders, export them into CSV files, or share them with your team. The dashboard also provides access to a search portal feature that allows you to find the email addresses of people who aren’t on LinkedIn or GitHub. It works by scouring the web for any mention of the person’s name and company, and it then compiles a list of potential email addresses that you can use.
Looking to enrich your data? ContactOut has a data enrichment feature too. Just upload a list of email addresses, LinkedIn profile URLs, or company domain names, and the tool will fill it in with essential contact data. This is also perfect for finding alternate contact information for your leads, such as their social media profiles or phone numbers.
Lastly, ContactOut integrates with major CRMs such as Salesforce and Zapier. These integrations can seamlessly push your ContactOut data into your CRM, and this lets you keep all of your lead information in a unified platform.
So we decided to try out ContactOut
We had a chance to try out ContactOut, and we were really impressed with how accurate it was. We tested it on a few well-known companies, and it quickly revealed contact information that would otherwise take us time to dig up on the Internet and public documents.
ContactOut claims to have triple-verified contact information. We were a bit skeptical about this, so we took some supposedly verified contacts and cross-referenced them across multiple email verification tools. The results were impressive; most of the email addresses that we tested were valid.
The tool’s design is also user-friendly, and we love how ContactOut doesn’t bombard you with a ton of features that you’ll never use. The dashboard is straightforward, and it gives you quick access to all of the features that you need. The Chrome extension is also unobtrusive, and it doesn’t get in the way when you’re browsing your lead’s profile. The sidebar does not take up a lot of window space, and you can conveniently hide it near the scroll bar, where you can easily find it whenever needed.
Additionally, ContactOut comes with a free plan, which gives you 40 credits per month and access to standard features. If you need more credits, you can subscribe to a paid plan starting at $29 per month for 1,200 credits. This already includes access to premium features such as data enrichment and phone number reveals.
One downside to the tool is that it has far fewer contact data on Github than it has on LinkedIn. This is unfortunate, as GitHub is a great source of tech talents, and recruiters and companies would want to contact them outside the platform. Also, integrations and functionality in LinkedIn Recruiter and Sales Navigator are only available in expensive, upper-tier plans.
Our Verdict
To sum up, here’s what makes ContactOut a great tool, as well as some disadvantages that may need to be improved upon:
Pros
- Fast and easy to use
- Unobtrusive extension and sidebar
- Highly accurate contact information
- Free plan and reasonable premium pricing
Cons
- Does not work as well in Github as it does on LinkedIn
- You need to pay more to use it in your LinkedIn Sales or Recruiter account
Overall, we think that ContactOut is an excellent tool for sales, marketing, and recruitment professionals who are looking for an accurate and user-friendly way to find their leads’ contact information. It’s perfect for those who want to avoid the hassle of manually combing the Internet for leads, and it’s also great for quickly verifying contact information.
If you’re looking for a tool to help you find email addresses, we highly recommend that you try out ContactOut.
