Free Email Lookup: Find Anyone’s Email Address Quickly

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Albina Ranniaia
by Albina Ranniaia

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If we had to take a wild guess, we’d say you’re here because you’re looking for a free email lookup. If we were to really push the boat out, we’d take a bet that you googled this because you’re a B2B sales pro wanting to find your prospects’ email addresses – without paying a penny for the privilege. 

We all want to save a buck or two where we can, right? Well, fortunately you’ve come to the right place. Finding email addresses quickly is our specialty here at Surfe – and we can also show you how to find them for free, too. 

After reading this article, you’ll have a free email lookup solution so simple you’ll want to tell all your friends. Or not, if you’re more of the gatekeeping type. Up to you. 

Here’s what we’ll be covering: 

Ready? Let’s get started. 

Say Goodbye to Manually Searching for Email Addresses 

If you’ve just been searching for a single person’s email address, you’ve probably tried a fair few steps already without much success: 

  • Googling “[contact’s name] email address” 
  • Checking their social media to see if their email address is listed anywhere 
  • Checking their website or their company website to see if there’s a contact page with their email address 
  • Checking other online directories 

We’re sure we don’t need to tell you that this takes ✨ages✨ and isn’t exactly the most riveting task in the world. Plus, it doesn’t always end in you finding an accurate email address – which in turn can lead to your attempts to reach out ending up in the spam folder, or bouncing back into your own email inbox. 

Contact data is valuable stuff – if data is the new gold, contact data is like gold dust – and that means people protect it. Unless you’re armed with the right tools, looking up an accurate email address for free can be near-impossible. That is, until Surfe came along. And before you ask – yes, we’re GDPR-compliant.

9 in 10 b2b companies use 2 or more contact data enrichment tools

Free Email Lookup of a LinkedIn profile

Surfe is a simple Google Chrome extension that’s free to download and sign up for. It doesn’t require any setup, or even a credit card (otherwise the whole premise of this article would be a lie – and we always tell the truth). 

Once you’ve downloaded Surfe, it will ask you what CRM you want to connect it to (if you don’t have a CRM, then you can select a Google Sheet). Next, head to the LinkedIn profile of the person whose email address you’re looking for and click search. Surfe will automatically find their email address – magic. 

Want to know how it works? Thanks – we love the opportunity to show off our free email lookup tech. Basically, Surfe uses waterfall enrichment, which basically means it aggregates several databases to give itself the best chance of finding the email address you need (which happens 93% of the time, in case you were wondering). 

We’re choosy about the databases we work with – we only rely on the very best to help us, like Hunter, RocketReach, Apollo, Dropcontact and more. Using so many databases also allows you to be confident that the email address we provide is accurate – and as the cherry on top of the cake, we then run it through ZeroBounce to make sure you’re not going to end up in the spam folder or as a bounced email. 

All this happens in just a few seconds – and then if you click ‘Add as contact’, the profile’s details and contact data will be automatically added to your chosen Google Sheet.

Find validated email addresses for your LinkedIn contacts with Surfe

Free Email Lookup for your Sales Navigator Lead Lists

“But what about me?”, cries everyone that has to find a free email lookup tool for multiple leads. Don’t worry – we’ve got you too. If you’re looking to add email addresses to a shiny new lead list from LinkedIn Sales Navigator, we’ve got you. 

LinkedIn Sales Navigator is brilliant when you need to find lots of new people to get in touch with. Its advanced filtering capabilities allow you to find profiles that closely match your ICP – you can run a targeted search for people in a specific company or working in a specific role, and then export their email addresses in batches of up to 25 at a time. 

Make sure you have Surfe downloaded and then just log into your CRM. Jump into the Surfe dashboard (you can find us by clicking the Surfe logo at the top of the page), head to settings and make sure that ‘Trigger email & phone enrichment automatically’ is turned on. You’re all set up. Go and build your lead list in Sales Navigator. 

Once you’ve filtered down your profiles to a promising-looking list, simply hit ‘Export to CRM’ and Surfe will automatically find these email addresses and pass all the data over to your Google Sheet or other CRM of choice. And if you’re wondering if this email lookup is free – the answer’s yes. You get 20 free email finder credits every month. 

How to export email addresses from sales navigator

Lookup Hundreds of Email Addresses in One Search

But what if you don’t fancy using LinkedIn to find these contact details? Maybe you just have a CSV with your prospects’ names and companies? 

Don’t worry – we’re not going to make you trawl through LinkedIn looking for each and every contact’s email address.

Instead, you can use Surfe Lighthouse to do it all for you. Simply upload your CSV file of choice, select what contact information you’d like it to find, hit ‘Start enrichment’ and you’re good to go. Once the contact data appears, just click ‘Download as CSV’ and you have a perfectly enriched spreadsheet ready to go.

Let’s Wrap It Up!

So there you have it  – use Surfe to quickly and easily find anyone’s email address, without paying a penny. Whether you want to pull email addresses from an individual’s LinkedIn profile, a Sales Navigator lead list, or a good old-fashioned CSV, Surfe can help you look up an email for free in seconds. 

Now all you need to do is decide whether to tell your friends – or leave them wondering why you’re suddenly so good at prospecting.

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FAQs About Finding Anyone’s Email Address Quickly 

Is There a Free Email Lookup? 

Yes, there is a free email lookup tool you can use called Surfe. Surfe is a waterfall enrichment tool, which means it aggregates data from multiple high-quality databases to find the email addresses you need. It then uses ZeroBounce to make sure the email addresses are valid, before migrating the data you’ve found to your CRM or Google Sheet of choice. It’s totally free – all you need is a LinkedIn account (which is also free) to get started.  

How Can I Find Someone’s Email Online for Free? 

You can find someone’s email address online for free using the Surfe email finder tool. Here’s how it works: 

  1. Make sure you have a LinkedIn account, and download the Surfe Chrome browser extension. When you’re asked which CRM to connect it to, either choose the CRM your business uses or connect it to a Google Sheet instead. 
  2. Visit the LinkedIn profile of the person you’d like to find an email address for. 
  3. Click ‘Add as contact’. Surfe will automatically run through its databases until it finds an accurate email address, and then feed it through to your CRM. 

Is There an Email Finder?

There are plenty of email finder tools out there, but for the most accurate results we’d recommend using a waterfall enrichment email finder tool like Surfe. This type of tool uses multiple databases to 1) increase the chance of finding the email address you need, and 2) make sure that the email address it gives you is accurate. 

How Can I Find Someone’s Email Address by Their Name? 

You can find someone’s email address using their name in several ways using the Surfe free email lookup tool. Here are your options: 

  1. Visit their LinkedIn profile. Make sure you have the Surfe Chrome extension downloaded and set up, and then press ‘Add as contact’. Surfe will automatically search through multiple databases to find you the right email address – it’s got a 93% success rate which is pretty great. 
  2. Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator to build a list of people you’d like to contact. Again, make sure you have the Surfe Chrome extension set up and then click ‘Export to CRM’. Surfe will automatically find email addresses for up to 25 people in one go for you. 
  3. If you have a CSV file with the names and companies of people you’d like to find email addresses for, use the Surfe Lighthouse tool to find the right email addresses and populate your spreadsheet with them. Simple!