How to Find Email Addresses on LinkedIn in 2024

As a content writer who mostly works for B2B companies, LinkedIn is my go-to platform for finding potential clients because it’s the largest professional network in the world right now. This platform makes it easy to find notable companies to work (or collaborate) with and identify key decision-makers you can reach out to with your proposal. 

The problem, however, is that many professionals on LinkedIn don’t reply to InMails (LinkedIn’s communication system). Most of them prefer to have initial conversations via email. So if you’re using LinkedIn for sales prospecting, you might have a better chance of getting a response when you reach out to prospects via email, rather than sending them DMs on the platform. 

But how do you get their emails, you ask? 

That’s the question this article answers. In this piece, you’ll learn a few nifty ways to find email addresses on LinkedIn so you can kickstart your email outreach campaign.    

6 ways to find email addresses on LinkedIn

1. Use a Chrome extension that reveals email addresses on LinkedIn

The Wiza Chrome extension is a browser extension specifically designed to help you find and verify email addresses and phone numbers on LinkedIn. Here’s how it works: 

• First, install the Chrome extension on your computer.

• Once you install the extension on your Chrome browser, it automatically integrates with LinkedIn (the basic version, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter). The next step is to open your LinkedIn and start prospecting. 
• When you find a key decision-maker you’d like to reach out to, open their profile. Here’s what it’ll look like: 

Notice the buttons right underneath the prospect’s LinkedIn bio that says Find email and phone.  

• When you tap it, Wiza’s AI will generate and verify the prospect’s email address and phone number in seconds. If you only need their email address, click on the Find email button. Since Wiza verifies each email address, you can rest assured that the prospect will receive your email when you send it.

In addition to how fast and efficient the Wiza Chrome extension is at finding email addresses on LinkedIn, you also get much more than just verified email addresses and phone numbers. 

On the right side of your screen, you’ll find a brief rundown of the prospect, their title, and their contact information. There’s also information about the company they work for, including the company’s name, founding date, headcount, location, and the service it offers. This allows you to determine if the company matches your ideal customer profile (ICP) or not. 

2. Check the Contact Info section 

The Wiza Chrome extension uses a credit-based system, which means that you’re charged a credit for each email address and phone number you find.

To conserve your credits, search the prospect’s LinkedIn profile to see if they listed their email address. If they did, you can save your credits for other prospects who don’t have their email addresses on their profile. 

Start with the Contact info section, which you’ll find right under the prospect’s LinkedIn bio. This section allows LinkedIn users to list the ways through which people can reach them, and some people include their email addresses here. 

The great thing about this method is that it’s completely free and straightforward. You don’t need to use any tools, it takes little time, and you’re not infringing on the prospect’s privacy because they made their contact information publicly available on the platform.

3. Check the About section

If you can’t find the prospect’s email address in the Contact info section, scroll down to the About section. Many people on LinkedIn, myself included, show their preference for email conversations by listing their emails at the bottom of their About section. 

The main downside of looking through a prospect’s Contact info and About sections, however, is that not many people include their business emails on their LinkedIn profiles. 

This process is also not scalable; if you’re trying to build a prospect list, it is time-consuming and strenuous to check everyone’s profile one by one.

4. Export your connection list 

If you have a large LinkedIn connection list filled with people who work at companies that match your ICP, you essentially have a goldmine of prospective clients within reach. 

There’s a chance that some of these connections made their business email addresses publicly available. But instead of checking their profiles one by one, simply export your connection list. Here’s how to do that: 

• Open your LinkedIn app on your computer and click on your profile in the top-left corner of your screen.  
• Then tap Settings & privacy.

• Next, tap Data privacy on the left side of the page and click Get a copy of my data. 

• Check the button that says, “Want something in particular? Select the data files you’re most interested in.” Then check the Connections box. 
• Click Request archive.

After a few minutes (depending on how many connections you have), LinkedIn will send you your connection file as a download. The spreadsheet will contain information like first name, last name, company name, job title, and email address. Those who made their email addresses available on LinkedIn will have that information next to their name in the spreadsheet. 

Pro tip: If you find people on your list whose email addresses are not available on LinkedIn, but whose companies match your buyer persona, don’t fret. You can export that data into your customer relationship management (CRM) tool and enrich the list using Wiza’s extensive B2B contact database (we’ll get to that in a jiffy). 

5. Use an email finder tool

Email finder (or email discovery) tools like Wiza’s Free Email Finder make it easy to find someone’s email address. So if a prospect doesn’t have their email address on their LinkedIn profile, you could just get their full name and company URL and plug this information into Wiza’s email finder, like so: 

Click on Find emails and the tool will bring up the person’s verified email address in a few seconds. 

Wiza has a 97% accuracy when it comes to finding and verifying email addresses, but sometimes you won’t get the email addresses of the prospects you want to speak to. If this happens, you can find the email addresses of other people who work in the company and ask them to put you in touch with your prospect. 

6. Use an email permutator 

An email permutator is a tool that guesses someone’s email address using their public data. These tools often iterate through a combination of the person’s name, initials, nickname, and domain (or company name) to generate a list of probable email addresses. 

This email permutator tool from Mailmeteor is pretty decent. To use it, enter the first name and last name of the prospect and the domain name of the company they work for (all of which you can get on LinkedIn). The email permutator tool will run through this information and automatically generate a long list of email address variations in seconds. 

When I put in my first name, last name, and the domain name of my author website, this tool generated 34 possible email addresses in no time. The first one’s the correct one, by the way, but that’s not always the case. 

And therein lies the main downside of using email permutator tools — you’ll have to manually check each email variation to know which one’s the correct one, which is laborious. To ease this process, click on the Open in Gmail link at the bottom of the suggestions. This prompts a new email message with all the email variations added to the To field. 

Hover your cursor over each email address. When you get to the right one, a pop-up will confirm that the address is indeed valid. To be extra sure, you can use Wiza’s free email verification tool to confirm that the mailbox exists and can receive emails.

Note: This method isn’t foolproof because email permutator tools don’t always generate the right email address variant. Some prospects use a completely different email pattern than other companies and these tools may not be able to guess the pattern. 

6. Ask your prospect 

If you can’t find a prospect’s email address on their LinkedIn profile or with Wiza’s Chrome extension (which is rare), don’t give up and move on to the next person. Instead, shoot them an InMail right there on LinkedIn introducing yourself and your company. 

Since you’re reaching out to them out of the blue, try to send a personalized message to prime them to be more receptive to you. If they respond, strike up a conversation and ask them if they’d like to continue speaking with you on LinkedIn or if they’d prefer to transition to an email-based conversation. 

If they prefer email, politely ask for their email address and move the conversation over there. 

How to find real-time verified emails in bulk

As a salesperson or marketer, you may need to build a prospect list of hundreds, if not thousands, of key decision-makers working in companies that match your ICP. In cases like this, manually perusing each person’s LinkedIn profile or putting in their information one by one into email finder or permutator tools can be a waste of time. 

A quicker and more efficient method is to use Wiza Prospect — a tool that gives you access to a database of over 830+ million B2B contacts (99% LinkedIn coverage). This tool offers filters you can use to narrow down these contacts and find viable leads to pursue, including job title, location, skills, company name, and company industry, to name a few.

When you find people you’d like to reach out to, just click Export All Leads to export all of them at once directly into your CRM tool. Wiza integrates with popular CRM systems and sales tools, including HubSpot, Outreach, and Salesforce. It also integrates with Zapier, so you can get access to Zapier’s repository of over 6,000 apps. 

Here’s where things get interesting: As Wiza exports the prospect list, it automatically enriches the data with each person’s essential contact info, regardless of how many people are on the list. This tool exports information such as their full name, title, company, LinkedIn URL, location, business and personal email addresses, mobile numbers, and direct dial. 

What’s more, Wiza also adds 21+ firmographics, which will help you categorize organizations according to their: 

• Industry
• Geographic location
• Headcount
• Founding year
• Revenue
• Funding data, etc. 

With Wiza Prospect, you don’t have to verify each person’s information manually. Instead, you can use the filters to get as granular as possible, create a prospecting list of up to 2,500 leads, and export them all into your CRM tool, complete with all the information you need to start your cold outreach efforts.

Use Wiza to find email addresses on LinkedIn

A common theme throughout this article was the mention of all the different ways that Wiza can help you find email addresses on LinkedIn: through its Chrome extension, free email finder tool, free email verifier tool, and B2B contact database tool, Wiza Prospect. 

This speaks to how versatile this platform is at helping you with sales prospecting — whether that looks like finding the contact info of a few prospects or compiling elaborate profiles on thousands of prospects and the companies they work for.Want to check out Wiza? Sign up for the free plan today.