How to Find Someone’s Phone Number and Email Address

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Are you a field sales representative struggling to reach potential customers? One of the biggest roadblocks you might face is figuring out how to find someone’s phone number, especially when you’re in unfamiliar territory.

Luckily, there are tools out there that can help. This comprehensive guide will explore some of the best ways to find someone’s phone number and email address. Whether using Veloxy or another phone number lookup tool, these tips and suggestions will help you reduce wasted time and missed sales opportunities.

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The Connection Between Email Addresses and Phone Numbers

Have you ever found yourself with a phone number but no email address, or vice versa? It can be frustrating, especially when trying to connect with a prospect or follow up on a hot lead.

Luckily, there’s often a connection between email addresses and phone numbers that can make your search a little easier. After all, when you create an account online, whether for social media, online shopping, or a new email, you typically provide your phone number and email address.

This information is often linked to the same profile or account, making managing your communication channels easier. This connection also means that if you have someone’s phone number, there’s a good chance you can find their email address, and vice versa.

Social Media Accounts

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Social media accounts are a great place to start if you want to find someone’s email address or phone number. When you create a social media account, you’re often asked to provide your contact information, including your phone number and email address. These details are usually visible on any profile, making it easy for others to find them.

Online Directories

Online directories are another valuable resource for finding email addresses and phone numbers. Many directories pull information from various sources, including public records and online profiles, to create a comprehensive database. This means that if someone has their phone number or email address listed publicly, it’s likely to be included in the directory.

Public Records

Public records, such as those maintained by government agencies, can also be a valuable source of information. Many of these records are available online and can include contact information for individuals and businesses. While this information may not always be up-to-date, it can still be a useful starting point in your search.

Email Lists

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Finally, email lists can provide insight into email addresses and phone numbers. Many organizations and businesses collect email contact information and phone numbers as part of their marketing efforts. While these lists are often used to send promotional materials, they can also be a great resource for finding contact information.

How to Find Someone's Phone Number

As a field representative (or outside representative), you probably spend a lot of time finding the correct phone number to reach out to a potential client. While finding contact details is a bit easier if you have their email address, as mentioned above, there are simpler ways.

Instead of endlessly scrolling through LinkedIn or company websites, try these effective methods for finding someone’s phone number.

Social Media Scanning

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As mentioned above, social media is a goldmine for finding contact information. LinkedIn, in particular, is a fantastic resource for finding a prospect’s current job title and company. However, that alone might not give you their phone number.

What you can do is look for a post or status update that they might have made where they mention their phone number. Alternatively, if they’ve shared a video or post in which they were interviewed, they might have tagged the interviewer and included their contact information.

By checking out the interviewer’s profile, you can contact them to inquire about the prospect’s information, including their phone number. Or, you can connect with them on LinkedIn or other professional platforms and start a conversation that way.

Google Search Operator

Google is among the most popular search engines, and it can help you do much more than just look for sales tips online. One particular search technique that can come in handy is called the Google search operators.

A Google search operator is a symbol or tag that we use to tell Google to do a specific search function. For example, if you type in “site:nameofwebsite.com John Doe phone,” Google will only return phone numbers associated with “John Doe” on that specific site.

This is a particularly helpful trick if you know where someone works but don’t have their email address or phone number. If you don’t know where they work, there are plenty of other Google search operators you can try to uncover that information.

Reverse Phone Lookup

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A reverse phone lookup is an effective way of looking up unknown numbers. You can try sites like TrueCaller.com, AnyWho.com, or WhitePages.com to try and find whose phone number it is by simply entering the phone number online.

These sites also provide additional information like the current location, name, and address of the person behind that number, but sometimes, they won’t be able to tell you who the number belongs to. If that’s true, you might try running the number’s location-based search instead.

Online Directories

Online directories like Whitepages and AnyWho (see above links) are great tools for finding phone numbers. You simply enter the person’s name and state of residence; the directory will provide you with their phone number. Some directories even offer reverse phone lookups, which allow you to get the name and address of a person based on their phone number.

Hunter.io

Hunter.io is a web-based tool that searches the internet for emails associated with a particular domain. All you have to do is enter the company name and domain. Hunter.io will then give you a list of all the email addresses associated with that domain and the confidence score that the email address is correct.

With this information, you can then use a paid or free phone number lookup tool to get a phone number for the prospect. Plus, you can integrate Hunter.io with your email client to streamline your outreach process.

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Veloxy

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Finally, you can use plenty of field sales software and tools to improve your sales process. Veloxy, for example, is a sales acceleration platform designed to help you increase your sales productivity.

While it’s not focused on finding phone numbers specifically (it’s a much more robust software than just a phone number finder), it feeds you email notifications, upcoming meetings, prospect and opportunity details, and priority tasks based on your context and location.

If you have the mobile app installed, you can quickly access a Salesforce account’s sales intelligence, find new contacts to engage with, discover new prospects in their real-time geo-location, and perform call or email blitzes.

Through Veloxy Lite, it also provides an extension that integrates with your Gmail or Outlook account and Salesforce. The Veloxy extension can help do everything from getting real-time notifications every time your customers open, click, and forward your emails to nurturing customer engagement with drip campaigns.

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How to Find Someone's Email Address

So, what do you do if you have someone’s phone number but not their email address? Having both pieces of contact information can help you increase your chances of making a sale, and it’s especially useful if you’re out in the field and need to do a stop-in.

Here are a few tips to help you find someone’s email address and phone number. While they’re similar to the techniques you’d use to figure out how to find someone’s phone number, they can come in handy when you’ve exhausted other options and need to find an email address quickly.

Use Google

Google is often the first place people turn to when they need to find information, and it’s a great starting point for finding email addresses and phone numbers, too. Start by typing in the person’s name and company and see if any contact information appears in the search results.

You can also use boolean search operators like “AND” and “OR” to refine your search. These search operators are slightly different from the ones mentioned above, so it’s helpful to research email-specific operators that will help make your search more efficient.

Check Their Social Media Profiles

People often share their contact information on social media, so it’s worth looking there. LinkedIn is a particularly useful platform for salespeople geared towards professionals. If you find the person you’re looking for, check out their profile to see if they’ve made their contact information public or shared their email in a comment or post.

Check Their Website

If the person you’re trying to reach has a website, check the “Contact Us” page to see if they’ve provided an email address or phone number. You can also try looking at the website’s “About Us” page to see if any contact information is listed there.

If you can’t find an email address, check how others in the company format their email address and try to send an email to your prospect using that same format. For example, if you see that everybody has the email address set to firstname.lastname@companyname.com, it’s worth sending an email using that structure to see if it reaches your prospect.

Use Veloxy

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Obviously, we’re a bit biased, but Veloxy is also an excellent tool for finding email addresses.

With access to real-time geo-location data, the AI sales assistant quickly helps you find new prospects and contacts to engage with. Plus, our inbox plugin integrates with your Outlook or Gmail, so you can stay on one screen without the hassle of switching between different apps.

Best of all, Salesforce users can log their activity automatically, making sales engagement rates soar.

Other Phone Number Lookup Tools

By now, you’re familiar with tools like Hunter.io or Veloxy. However, there are many other apps and software out there that can help you find that elusive contact information.

One great tool is UpLead, which allows you to search for specific criteria (like company size or location) and get a list of potential leads with their contact inf