Free Contact Enrichment with WhatsMyName

Hello, fellow creeps! Having trouble locking down those elusive contacts of yours? If you’re struggling to slap an email on to your incomplete info cards, then you’ve come to the right place…assuming you at least have their internet handle.  So, step into our office and we’ll give you the rundown on how to do sneaky but free contact enrichment to jigsaw together those elusive partials.

We are simple beasts at heart.  I’d be genuinely shocked if someone told me they had a unique login name for every one of their online accounts. Besides it being incredibly weird, it’s also a hassle. Nobody has time for that. We all use the same name as frequently as possible, dont lie. But, that’s where the “creature of habit” mentality can be exploited (muahaha).

Say you find a juicy lead off twitter, and want to find their email address…what’s a sourcer to do? Plug that twitter handle into WhatsMyName and see what the cat drags in.  It will scour the far reaches of the internet for any and all references to that phrase. We’re talking social media sites and everything under the digital sun.

If they have a custom URL made for their LinkedIn, it should appear there. If they happen to be a software engineer of some kind, GitHub is a fantastic social platform for tracking emails as well. Their email (if they did not choose to hide it) will be under their profile image on their account page.

There are a few other social media accounts that have public facing email addresses, but for the most part LinkedIn and GitHub will be your holy water.  This sort of methodology is what a lot of sourcers live for: the dopamine rush of finally tracking someone down.

Best of luck hunting.

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Dean Da Costa

Dean Da Costa is a highly experienced and decorated staffing professional, recruiter, sourcer and manager, who also boasts outstanding experience and skills in Human Resources, Project Management, Training, and Process Improvement. He is best known for his work in the highly difficult security and mobile arena's, and the gold star winning numbers he produced. His keen insight and creation of ground breaking tools and processes, to enhance and change staffing as we know it, have proven he is a true "Staffing Thought Leader". Despite all this he remains first and foremost one of the top sourcers, staffing managers and full cycle recruiters in the industry and a true "Search Authority"

Noel Cocca

CEO/Founder RecruitingDaily and avid skier, coach and avid father of two trying to keep up with my altruistic wife. Producing at the sweet spot talent acquisition to create great content for the living breathing human beings in recruiting and hiring. I try to ease the biggest to smallest problems from start-ups to enterprise. Founder of RecruitingDaily and our merry band of rabble-rousers.