Email as an outreach channel is not enough?
I get it.
Cold email is great and everything, but the chances of B2B lead generation success accelerate when you combine multiple touchpoints to reach out to potential prospects.
(And you won’t have any regrets either!)
So, LinkedIn is a great place to start.
And if I’m being brutally honest, LinkedIn has 14x better conversion rates.
You don’t need to start all over again to get there – you can use your existing email database to find your prospects on LinkedIn.
And we’re gonna tell you how.
Here’s everything I’ll break down for you:
– Why LinkedIn?
– How to find a LinkedIn profile by email address?
– Why YOU SHOULD definitely do it
Gear up, because we’re starting!
Does LinkedIn show email address?
Yes.
So, you can look up people's email addresses on their profiles, but only if they’ve made it public, otherwise, you can’t.
Now that the facts are clear, let’s see what you can do to find the LinkedIn URLs of your prospects using their emails.
How to find a LinkedIn profile by email address
There are 3 ways you can look someone up on LinkedIn using their email addresses:
↪️The good old Google search,
↪️Microsoft Outlook for Outlook emails, and
↪️Email lookup tools.
Let’s look at each one of them in detail:
1. The good old Google search
This is an easy and trusted method to find the LinkedIn profiles of people on Google.
All you have to do is go to Google, and type out either one or all of these (whatever you know), and add “LinkedIn” at the end:
- Name + job title
- Name + company
- Name + school/ college
- Name + email
- Name + city
You can recognize them based on their work profile, profile picture, etc., and there you have it.
If they haven’t, there’s no way to know.
Anyway, one of these is definitely gonna work for you.
Google is really good + efficient at finding LinkedIn profiles this way.
There’s a solid 80% chance you’ll find what you’re looking for. :)
But as you can tell, it’s next to impossible to do this in bulk.
2. Microsoft Outlook for Outlook accounts
Did you know you can find ‘profile cards’ of people who have synced their LinkedIn account with Outlook?
It’s another great way to find LinkedIn profiles within Outlook itself.
What do you need to do?
- Go to Outlook.
- Sync your account with LinkedIn.
- Now you can add emails and see their LinkedIn profile information on their profile card.
This is highly effective (and accurate too) but works only when your + person’s profile is synced with their Outlook account.
And as you can see, comes with T&C too.
The person + you should have an Outlook account.
3. Email Lookup Tools
There are multiple low-code/ no-code tools available that will help you find LinkedIn profiles of your email lists and they are great.
If you have the requirements and resources, then it’s the best option for you.
Tools like Reverse Contact really help you with large lists and you can then download the LinkedIn URL list.
They go through public records and online resources, verify their information (like name, employer, contact info, etc), and then give it to you.
Basically, just with an email CSV list, you get a fully enriched data file.
And generally, they provide integrations so you can connect them with your favorite CRM to import data directly.
4. Bonus tip: Next steps with SalesRobot
Now that you got your LinkedIn URL list, your next steps would be to plan your outreach strategy step-by-step.
This is where you can automate it.
Why automate it?
If your business goal is to get leads from LinkedIn, and you’ve already been running email campaigns, or not, you must realize that after a certain point, it is impossible to do it manually.
Even if you manage it somehow initially, a day will come when you’ll be exhausted and won't wanna do it anymore.
Until a friend comes over and tells you this:
And then you realise:
LinkedIn lead generation is not a one step process.
It can take months.
So, to make your life easier, there’s SalesRobot.
SalesRobot is a LinkedIn + Email automation tool that lets you reach out to your prospects efficiently.
But why SalesRobot?
↪️SalesRobot has 9 different options to import prospect lists, including a CSV option which can be useful to add that list you just downloaded.
↪️SalesRobot can run LinkedIn + Email campaigns in one sequence, so you know you are reaching out to people more effectively via the same campaign.
↪️SalesRobot is smart enough to detect if people have open profiles, in that case it’ll send free InMails to them saving you some credits.
↪️You can create fully customizable campaigns and 100% control when, where, and how you engage with your prospects.
↪️You can slowly start by warming up, visiting their profile, commenting, sending actual personalized requests, and so much more.
These are good features of SalesRobot, something a lot of automation tools have out there, so what makes it great?
✅The fact that maybe, just maybe, you won’t need to go through all that work of finding profiles by emails.
Because what if — the emails you have are inaccurate, or just don’t exist anymore, or those people don’t want to hear from you?
SalesRobot’s AI lookalike feature works better when you need to find a highly targeted audience for your outreach.
You simply need to enter the data of your best customers and it will automatically give you a list of people/ companies who resemble them best.
This helps you target people who might actually be interested + in need of your services.
✅The fact that you can control your automation - 100%.
- Profile visits
- Connection Invites
- Follow-ups
- Profile views
- InMails
- Profile follows
- Likes and comments
- Endorsements
- Messages using groups and event
These make AI’s LinkedIn activity human-like.
Safe mode has daily max activity limits to keep your account safe.
✅The fact that SalesGPT 2.0 (launching soon) can automate sales outreach + book meetings at scale by handling responses.
It’s a 5-step simple process:
- You define your ICP
- Build an outreach sequence
- Hyper-personalize at scale
- Experienced AI handles responses
- Automated meetings scheduled.
✅The fact that you can schedule SalesRobot’s activity on LinkedIn to work only when your target audience is most active on LinkedIn.
No more timezone problems.
✅The fact that SalesRobot has a hugeee 700M emails database to enrich your LinkedIn prospects lists.
✅The fact that you can automate birthday and congratulations wishes to celebrate your prospects.
Here’s how you can create a multi-channel campaign using SalesRobot:
- Sign up for the free trial and go to the Campaigns page, and click here
- Next, click on create a campaign with Email and LinkedIn.
- Now, you’ll see 2 options: SalesGPT will ask you a bunch of questions and create a customizable campaign sequence while the ‘I’m an advanced user’ lets you create one from scratch.
- If you proceed with the 2nd option, you need to pick a name for your campaign, and add your prospect list (which I am assuming would be in a CSV format.)
- Configure your settings and set up a sequence now from the ‘From Scratch’ option.
Once you’re satisfied, hit ‘Save’ and you’re good to go!
It was easy, right?
Okay okay... enough about SalesRobot.
Let’s talk about some common use cases of enriching email lists with LinkedIn URLs.
Why YOU SHOULD find LinkedIn profile by email
We’ve talked about the importance of LinkedIn earlier, so I’m not gonna go there.
But it’s important that you understand why it is great for your business to enrich your email lists.
So here are 3 use cases of it:
↪️Multi-channel outreach
↪️Lead enrichment
↪️CRM enrichment
1. Multi-channel outreach
When you plan strategically and reach out to your prospects via multiple touchpoints, it increases your chances of response and (probably) business.
So, while relevancy is important to consider, you need to understand that relying on one channel won’t give you crazy results.
And there are actual reasons why:
✅Your prospects might not be very active on one channel but more on another.
✅You build trust and show genuine interest when you reach out to them on multiple channels.
✅Your outreach will seem less pushy.
2 messages on LinkedIn + 3 emails + subtle warm up on LinkedIn
VS.
5 emails back to back
Don’t tell me you don’t think the 1st option is better. :)
2. Lead Enrichment
Your inbound marketing is working great for you, but the data feels incomplete?
It’s true — let’s say you rolled out some newsletters or lead magnets and collected a bunch of email addresses.
But emails don’t give you enough info about your leads.
This is where having LinkedIn info helps you out.
When you enrich those emails with LinkedIn data, you can personalize messages and follow-ups easily and build trust with your ICP.
With that kind of info, SalesRobot can help you write messages like this:
3. CRM Enrichment
A similar problem arises when your CRMs are full of emails but not much information about prospects.
Wouldn’t it be better for your sales teams if they could just talk to more people based on some personalized info?
LinkedIn profiles can easily provide data about their education, work history, location, and so much more so you know what to say.
(And also that you have enough info to talk to and don’t get out of words; doesn’t really leave a nice impression!)
This is why it is important you have LinkedIn URLs of your prospects, even if you’re never going to do LinkedIn outreach.
Conclusion
There you are!
Now you’re fully equipped to find LinkedIn profiles of your prospect list and use it efficiently.
While email is a professional way to reach out to people, LinkedIn is professional + more effective.
You also need to know that these methods will not work if your emails are inaccurate or inactive.
And LinkedIn + email + SalesRobot can turn your outreach full 180°.
I am not expecting you to take my word for it, try it out and let me know if you have any questions.
We have a free 14-day commitment-free trial, so yes, no credit cards needed! :)
Hope this helps,
See ya!
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