By Christian Somcio.

There is always that time when we have to find someone else’s email address. We may simply be looking for a way to contact an old acquaintance via email, reach out to a business that is unable to conveniently provide their contact details, or maybe you just want to fill in the gaps in your email list — the list goes on and on.

More often than not, email addresses can prove to be rather elusive creatures, but do not ever let that frustrate you. There are so many ways to track down the address of anyone online, and here are some techniques that you will certainly find useful in your quest:

Do some googling

If you are looking for someone’s email address online, using search engines like Google to do so is anyone’s logical first step. You can start with this very useful search format:

“Person’s name”+“email”

You can also add in their company’s name or their job title. If you want to go more in-depth with your search, however, you can always use one of Google’s really handy search operators such as site:, inurl:, and double quotes (“”).

Ask a mutual acquaintance

If you know someone who are acquainted with the person whose email address you are looking for, you can simply ask the former for the latter’s email address. This especially works if the said mutual acquaintance is your friend or one of your colleagues. You can also ask them to introduce you to your prospect prior to any attempts at email outreach. In this way, they will end up anticipating your email and be more receptive.

Find it in your prospect’s company website

Some company websites provide the contact information of some, if not all, of the members of their staff. This is especially true with educational institutions, who tend to list down in their site every single one of their employees. As such, it will be wise for you to start looking for your prospect in their company’s site. The About Us page, in particular, often holds a treasure trove of staff email addresses. Now, if the email address that you are looking for is nowhere in the site but the staff emails present follow a consistent format, you can simply refer to this format to make an educated guess.

Look in your prospect’s social media page

It is quite unheard of these days for someone to not have a social media profile, and a good chunk of these social media users own a page. Page owners, usually people who run a business or lead a cause, often display their contact information — including their email addresses — in their pages. That said, if your prospect happens to run a page, don’t waste time to head over to their page and, hopefully, uncover their email address.

Use an email search tool

Perhaps the fastest way to find anyone’s email address is to invest in a good email finder tool like ContactOut. This, however, is the most expensive option in the list as email search tools tend to be SaaS (software as a service) that costs a certain recurring payment. This is best if your efforts to find email addresses result in profit, e. g. if you are building an email list or are updating an existing one.

Supplied by Christian Somcio.