JavierCake

Account Executive

Building an email list for cold outreach

Hey savages, buddy of mine needs a hand 🖐️

I've been fortunate to have ZoomInfo and Sales Nav in my toolkit for years so haven't had to put together an email list from scratch for a while, but friend of mine is bootstrapping a startup and asked me how to find email addresses for his ICP.

I know some strategies that have worked like just trying "firstname@companyname.com" or "first.last@company.com" and hoping you don't get flagged as a dick by your email provider, but wondering if anyone here's had some success in building a list like this in the 21st century.

Thanks in advance 🌮

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poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

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Hunter.io and Apollo are great tools with freemium tiers that give you a ton of access.

unclespacejam

Politicker

ur dad’s brother

Agree 1000% both of these are great solutions for very low cost

jefe

Arsonist

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Never used Hunter but DEFINITELY second Apollo for value.

The guessing works a lot better when you find a few email addresses in one of the above tools and use the same format for ones that aren't known @JavierCake

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Hunter was cool but they would not stop emailing me. i had to block em.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

That's your own damn fault for being so foxy

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

blessings

JavierCake

Fire Starter

Account Executive

Amazeballs ⚽️ Thanks for the tips!

oldcloser

Arsonist

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Other than suggesting the first initial dot last variation, along with all possible others, maybe consider the low tech route? Call and ask for it. Here’s a script:

“Hi, this is St Peter up here at the gate. Been trying to get a gate code over to Jimbo. but the email bounced back. You got a good address for him? Obviously, this is time sensitive, if you don’t have it handy, I’ll hold.”

JavierCake

Fire Starter

Account Executive

Good call, love this approach!!

Justatitle

Big Shot

Account Executive

Hope and pray they make generic emails, wish I had a better answer

Beans

Big Shot

Enterprise Account Executive

If he has a list of target orgs, Hunter and Apollo are great.
I'm unsure what individual licenses are like for Lusha or ZI though, may be worth the investment vs time spend on other tools.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

ZI individual was $8K US like 5-6 years ago and they didn't even want to offer that without finagling.

AGuyInSales

Fire Starter

Area Sales Leader

Hunter.io is a great email finding service that has a free extension with limited look ups and then there is a paid version with more look ups. I use this alongside ZoomInfo now and it is very accurate. It will also give you the naming convention for the organization so you can guess at emails if you want to try.

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Building an email list for cold outreach

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