If you’re not sure about companies, work on finding your Crashpoint! If you’re not sure who you want to email yet, read How to Find the Hiring Manager.
Hunter is a super helpful little app for finding email addresses. It also features a Chrome extension that makes this whole process even easier.
Hunter will automatically pull it up, and show you how many employee email addresses it has found for that company.
Hunter tells you how emails at that organization are usually formatted. It’ll also (usually) show you some emails it can find. Sometimes it even gives you the email address of the exact person you’re looking for!
Once you know which employee you want to contact, you can also switch to the Finder tab, or hunter.io/find, to try combining the person’s name with the company website.
Notice the black tooltip? Hunter is 84% confident of this email address—but it’s not certain. Just because Hunter says it could be [email protected], doesn’t mean it is. You want to verify it before sending an email.
Click on the email address to copy it, then switch over to the Verifier tab, or hunter.io/verify.
Paste the email address into the verifier field, and see what comes up:
As you can see here, Hunter pinged the email server, and discovered that the email is actually not valid. Guess again!
At this point, you can usually try the common variations: