Finding email addresses and building up your list of music industry contacts is a vital part of your success. If you’ve purchased my book, you will know this is just one component in structuring your contact database, but of course an extremely important one. Below is my go to list of tools for curating the email addresses of those music industry contacts you will eventually be reaching out to.
ContactOut
A truly amazing tool, ContactOut leverages LinkedIn’s massive database with its chrome extension and is extremely easy to use. They claim to provide an accurate email addresses 97% of the time which is just crazy. With 100 free search credits per month, you’ll want to get going with this one immediately!
Findthat.email
Another fantastic tool that enables one to simply search a name and a web domain and retrieve their email address. Awesome for that music industry contact who may be working for a television production company or a larger firm. Similarly, they come equipped with a chrome extension and a free version that gets you started with 50 email credits.
Clearbit
Clearbit is another one of my go to resources to find email addresses. I love its Gmail integration, and it also comes with a web app and chrome extension. It recently got Airtable integration which is my favorite free resource to build my contact database.
Snov.io
I recently came across Snov.io which I find as a nice alternative to ContactOut. It has all of the same features including a chrome extension with LinkedIn connectivity and 100 free credits. What’s kind of cool is that it breaks down the emails it returns in 3 categories: Valid, Invalid and Catchall. Catchall emails are the guessed ones.
Email Hunter
Email Hunter is one of the tools I’ve been using the longest. Working in a similar manner as Findthat.email, you simply just need to know the contacts name and company web domain. 100 free credits is a nice way to get you started.
Conclusion
While all these tools offer free basic plans to get you started, my suggestion would be to find the one that works best for you and to opt for one of their paid plans. It’ll make your work much more efficient instead of having to bounce from tool to tool.
