The document outlines 5 lazy ways to find someone's email address: 1) Search past correspondence in Gmail, 2) Check if their email is linked on social media or their website, 3) Visit their website which may have their email, 4) Look at email conventions on their workplace's domain, and 5) Make logical guesses and use tools like Rapportive to verify possible emails. The document encourages taking a few seconds to try these lazy methods before reverting to more effortful ways to find an email.

1. 5 Lazy Ways to Find
Someone’s Email
by Erica McGillivray
@emcgillivray

2. Recently, 3 requests within 24
hours for my email address

3. All those people, I genuinely like
and all are web savvy

4. But humans be lazy (me too!)

5. Let’s do this the easy way

6. #1: If using Gmail, search for past
correspondence with names or keywords.

7. #2: Do they have a website or email
linked on social media?
Google talk = Gmail
Address: emcgillivray@gmail.com
Usernames are
the same.
Probably uses this
in email too.
Website!

8. #3: Visit their website
Email: emcgillivray@sliverofice.com. Plus, 10,000 other social
networks linked. Don’t be scared that the email here is on a
unique domain. It works since you can see the site.

9. #4: Workplace
Email: erica@moz.com. If you don’t find someone’s email, look at the company’s
naming conventions in other’s email addresses. Moz = firstname@moz.com.

10. #5: Make logical guesses and use
Rapportive to verify
We have a match!
Extra credit: use Rob Ousbey’s email suggest: http://bit.ly/name2email

11. This doesn’t always work

12. But just take 5 seconds to try

13. Then go back to being lazy

14. Email away!
Contact Erica McGillivray
@emcgillivray
emcgillivray@gmail.com