It’s impossible to sell if you can’t ever connect with a human. Sales reps often spend their days talking to voicemails and deleting undeliverable emails. But what if I could give you a tool to allow you to connect with just about anyone?
Today on The Sales Evangelist, we’ll talk about Hunter.io, and the power it gives you to connect with just about anyone.
Hunter.io is a plug-in that sits on your browser. When you visit a prospect’s website, Hunter.io pulls data for every email address published on the site. It also pulls emails from other sites that are associated with the domain.
It’s inexpensive, and you can try the free version for 30 days, or for 100 emails.
Emails
Business development is a challenging task.
Very often, you’re trying to connect with people who don’t necessarily know that they need your product or service.
In their minds, you’re disrupting them. They don’t yet know that you can help them solve a problem they may not even recognize.
Hunter.io helps you connect with those prospects by helping you locate email address, or by helping you determine the email convention for your prospect.
If, for example, you can’t find the exact email address of the prospect you’re seeking, you can use information about other people within the company to determine how their email addresses are composed. If Joe Lewis is joe.lewis, you can use that to deduce your prospect’s email address even if you can’t find it.
Hunter.io also shows how many times it found each email, so you’ll know the information is trustworthy.
Other people
In some cases, the C-level prospect or decision maker you need to reach may be hidden behind layers of executive assistants.
You can often find lower-level influencers in the company who can help you get connected to the person you need.
Very often, sales reps can build relationships with others in the company in an effort to gain influence with the decision-makers.
Process
I often begin by generating a dream list of prospects on LinkedIn. I use LeadGibbon to generate a list. Then I use my Hunter.io tool to gather email addresses to I can send an email to the prospect, or leave a message, or connect with them some other way.
I have a legitimate means of contacting them according to my existing cadence.
“Connect With Just About ANYONE!” episode resources
Give Hunter.io a try for yourself, with the free trial.
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