Hunter.io

Hunter.io is used by some of the biggest names in the tech industry, including Google, Microsoft, and IBM, and it can massively benefit you too.

Hunter.io Overview

Hunter.io is a cloud-based email spider that helps businesses discover and validate professional email addresses from domains, organizations, a particular profession on the web, and more. The platform was launched by Francoise Grante in 2015; since then, it has become the go-to tool for every individual looking to set up an email contact database, and reach their targets in no time.

Hunter’s web interface allows users search for people by name and domain and, with the Chrome extension, find/verify emails linked with the company website they are looking up.

Now you can create marketing campaigns and reach hundreds of people with personalized emails, as Hunter.io combines several premium-quality tools into one sleek suite.

Hunter.io Features

This is what you see when you first visit the Hunter.io website:

Once you create a free account with your work email and secure password, Hunter.io will provide options to get your email marketing campaign off to a great start.

Let us now take a dive into some of the main features you will get access to while using the Hunter.io email grabber platform.

Hunter.io Email Finder

This feature comprises two unique components:

• Email Finder – allows you find the email address of a particular person in a company.
• Author Finder – allows you find the email address of the author of an article.
  

Domain Search Tool

The search tab is a powerful email finder that allows you discover email addresses from any website or company name within seconds. You can export your search result as a spreadsheet or upload it into your CRM or software.

Email Verifier

Finding email leads for your outreach is only the first part of a campaign. After finding emails using Hunter’s Email Finder, it is important that you use the Email Verifier tool to verify the emails. Why?

This increases your success rate and ROI for any outreach campaign you embark on. You can either verify a single email address as shown in the image below or verify bulk email addresses by uploading a list of the addresses.

Unlike other email discovery and verification tools that source data from undisclosed sources, Hunter.io is a transparent and privacy-conscious platform.

Leads

The Leads management feature is a mini-CRM that allows you organize your email address lists by adding leads manually or importing them.

It has an array of filters on the left-hand side that allows you search leads by company, position, website, industry, country, etc. But Hunter.io offers more:

• The platform offers 50 free searches to those with a free plan, which will allow you test the waters before subscribing to a package.
• The features are well arranged an easy on the eye, making navigation a breeze.
• Overall, the search results are very reliable.

Campaigns

This is an email outreach tool that allows you create email templates, personalize your emails, and schedule follow-ups in the same way an email outreach tool or autoresponder does. Although it is not as sophisticated as email marketing software like Mailshake, for instance, the Hunter.io ‘Campaigns’ feature does enough in terms of open rate tracking, automation of outgoing emails, and scheduling follow-ups.

Hunter.io Chrome Extension

The Hunter.io Browser Extension allows you scan the platform’s rich database for email addresses related to any site of your choice. What’s more, if you find an email address that you wish to add to a campaign later, you can add it by clicking the plus button.

Google Sheets Add-on

Hunter provides this feature for users who already work with sheets as a part of their outreach process or simply want to work directly from Google Sheets. The Google Sheets Add-on from Hunter.io allows you search email addresses by domain and creates a spreadsheet with the emails you discover.

On the other hand, you can save time by taking the first and last name data from your spreadsheet and using the Email Finder tool to extract the contact information directly to your sheet. However, you will get faster results by using the bulk tasks feature if your sheet has over 500 rows of data.

Integrations

Hunter.io integrates directly with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Zoho CRM, making it a great way to search and verify email addresses for businesses.

API

The Hunter.io API includes features such as Email Finder, Domain Search, Leads, Leads List, and Email Count. Once you integrate Hunter’s API, you can generate leads and verify them whenever you need.

How to Integrate the Hunter.io API

• Create an account or login to your Hunter.io account to get your unique API key
• Go to Products → API for developers at the top left of the website
• Copy your API secret key and keep it safe.

Hunter.io Pricing & Plans

Hunter.io is free for the first 25 searches every month. If you need more searches per month, you need to upgrade to a paid plan.

The Starter plan costs $49/month and allows you up to 500 searches and 1,000 verifications monthly. The Growth plan costs $99/month and allows up to 2,500 searches and 5,000 verifications monthly; the Pro plan costs $199/month and allows up to 10,000 searches and 20,000 verifications monthly.

The biggest plan on Hunter.io is the Enterprise plan, which costs $399/monthly and allows up to 30,000 searches and 60,000 verifications monthly.

As expected, users who subscribe to the annual plan will get the same service at a more pocket-friendly rate. You can get started with the free plan to ensure Hunter.io is right for you before subscribing to any of the packages on offer.

Hunter.io Support

Hunter.io is pretty easy to navigate for most users; but there are times when you may run into problems. What kind of support can you expect at this time?

Hunter’s support team is made up of 4 Success team members, spread across Europe and Canada to ensure 24/5/365 coverage, as well as multilingual support. This team comprises a customer success manager, an account manager, and 2 others who all work remotely.

With a well distributed team, Hunter is able to provide support to customers in a timely manner, typically in less than one business day. As shown in the image below, you can reach Hunter’s support team by providing the subject of your issue and a bit of detail, so they can help.

Hunter.io also uses a tagging system to identify different types of customer inquiries. This way, they can know if a problem is specific to a user or there is a problem affecting multiple users.

Another great way to deliver quality customer service is to let customers help themselves. Hunter.io provides a Help Center with different help articles and FAQs to help users find explanations to questions on their own, which decreases customer waiting time and ensures satisfaction.