Sourcing Tools

Contact Out

It’s remarkably reliable for personal email addresses and will often give you multiple email address results. This Chrome extension features emails and phone numbers on LinkedIn - providing the information right at the top of the page, so the details are easily accessible and fast.

Key features:

• Has over 1 billion emails at a 99% accurate rate
• A ton of free credits with signup, meaning you may never need a subscription (depending on your requirements)
• Uses an AI engine to search faster and more efficiently

Contact Out has more than 200,000 users, a 4.5 star rating, and over 700 reviews.

Pros: Fast and effective! Easy access to information, everything is organized and the extension is simple and straightforward.

Cons: Can be costly for larger paid packages, though that’s depending on the needs of the user, and many would argue it’s worth the money.

Also, it’s important to take into consideration that this extension works best in the USA and the EU.

Lusha

This unique Google Chrome extension is said to be one of the best, particularly for recruiters who source on Twitter.

Lusha has over 300,000 users, a 4.9 star rating, and more than 1,700 reviews.

Key features:

• Is 100% free to start
• One-click interrogations
• Protects your data and privacy

Pros: has a good, easy to use system - very simple and effective/straightforward.

Cons: has its limits. Also, you need to pay for higher plans (or to get more than 3 credits per month).

All things considered, Lusha is a great free to use Google Chrome extension that is reliable, gets good results and easy to use.

Hunter

Hunter is an extension on Google Chrome that allows its users to locate a person’s work email address simply by the domain, which can be an extremely helpful/useful tool, especially for agency recruiters (and like minded people who are in business development mode).

Hunter skips the hassle and does the hard yards for you, finding information in a fast and effective way. This amazing extension can help locate email addresses (plural - as many as you like) when you’re on a website. For example, if you are checking out your company’s website, you can easily utilize Hunter by following the prompts and at the click of a button the information you seek is provided to you. Hunter will even give you further information, showing users which email addresses are confirmed as real/verified, and which are approximate (AKA guesses). However, it’s important to note that reviewers have stated that the guesses are pretty spot on! Getting it right 9/10 times.

The plug-in has over 500,000 users, a 5 star rating, and a massive 12,368 reviews.

Hunter is able to find email addresses from any website.

Pros: Hunter is free to use (free accounts provide 23 searches per month). It recognises familiar patterns, e.g., if a company uses the same company email address @egcompany.com.

Cons: If you’re looking to use this extension more than 25 times per month, you’ll need to sign up for a plan. Overall, Hunter is a reliable and cost effective Chrome extension (especially if you’re utilizing the free plan).

Voila Norbert

VoilaNorbert is a great extension too as it is handy in finding anyone’s email address - it is fast and productive.

Additionally, Norbert can be easily linked with your preferred email marketing platform. In its third-party support library are Hubspot, Constant Contact, Mailshake, Zapier, and Salesforce.

Pros: Provides 50 leads for free.

Cons: After 50 leads you need to choose a plan.

Data Miner

Data Miner is a data extraction tool that lets you scrape any HTML web page.

A free account gives you:

• 500 page scrapes every month
• Scraping all social media sites and the majority of domains
• Making use of one of the 100,000+ site-specific scripts already in use
• Scraping of search results from several pages; downloading of data as .CSV and .XLS files

Octopus

Fast, free and effective.

Octopus has automation software for LinkedIn lead generation, social selling and LinkedIn auto connect tool.

Pro: Octopus provides a FREE 7-day trial.

Con: Need to select a plan after the free trial period expires.

Dux-Soup

Dux-Soup will act like your personal assistant.

This Chrome extension employs a search feature that tracks every profile visit you make. Dux-Soup is especially useful for LinkedIn as the plug-in makes it easier to find, attract and engage with prospects (e.g., you can create micro-targeted and personalized LinkedIn lead generation campaigns.)

Pro: Dux-Soup provides a FREE 14-day trial.

Con: Need to select a plan after the free trial period expires.