How to find Alumni Business Email Addresses?

Contacting your alumni through various channels is key to any engagement strategy. Many universities and institutions prefer using a current business email address as their silver bullet.‍

Why?

On average, people are 8X more likely to check their work email than their personal emails.

Higher open rate
Higher reply rates
More conversations

How do you get a business email address?

The first step is having accurate employment data. This is the most critical part because a business email address is a function of the company your alum is at. If you don’t have the current company it will be impossible to find their business email address.

Once you are confident that your employment data is up to date, the first step is finding the domain mailing address for that company.

How to find a domain using a company name?

The easiest way is to use a search engine like Google or Bing. By simply putting in the search query the company name, you can find the domain and the correct “.com/.ca/.edu” address that is used with every email address.

AlumniFOX can supercharge this process by tapping into Google’s search API and turning 1,000’s of company names into their correct domains - in seconds.

Instead of having to manually do this, using a powerful API like Google can help you do this in a matter of moments.

Finding An Email Address

Since you now have your record’s First Name, Last Name, Company Name, and Domain URL, you have all the inputs necessary to produce a business email address.

It is almost always the case that the email address will be a combination of their first and last name, along with the domain URL.

For example:

John Smith who currently works at salesforce.

The domain for Salesforce is salesforce.com.