2. General Contact Mining
To start general contact mining the best thing to use
is LinkedIn social media channel. It’s the best thing
that you can find the contacts updated than other
paid versions. This is very simple to find people.
Login to LinkedIn Account that you have. Go to
LinkedIn Advance search where you will find the
name of the people with company and designations.
Click
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5. Cont.
You will find all the details in the previous image.
Give the company name that you are looking for and
also the designation and the location that you are
looking for.
If you know the name you can search by name as
well. You need not come here to search by name as
you will get in Google searches. Usually LinkedIn,
Twitter, Facebook searches will get first.
There you go you will get all the result with the same
designation and the required company.
Copy in the excel sheet in the required format and
you the contact mining list.
6. Contact Email id Mining
After finding out the names from LinkedIn you can
find out their email ids and phone numbers on
Google.com. But many email ids and phone
numbers you wont find.
To get email ids here is the simple method. You need
to know mining on Google.
Go to Google search. Search in Google as
“*@domain name”
Eg. *@linkedin.com
Check for the formats that the company has on
Google search on one of two search pages.
Examples of formats are given here.
7. Cont.
Format may be like this
First name . Last name @ linkedin.com
First letter . Last name @ linkedin.com
First letter Last name @ linkedin.com
First name Last name first letter @ linkedin.com
Eg. vivek.maudgalya@linkedin.com
Consider this format and find the required email
id in the excel sheet that you had mined.
8. Excel formulas for email Mining
After you find the format email id. If you the many
contact list from the same company you can use
these formulas in excel sheet.
To use these formulas you need to put First Name ,
Middle Name and Last Name in different column in
excel sheet.
To find email ids
=lower(concatenate(first name, “.” ,last name,
“@linkedin.com”))
=lower(concatenate(left(first name,1),last name,
“@linkedin.com”))
For first letter selection use Left(Name,1)
9. Hope this made you easy to find contacts of the folks
that you are looking for. Hope you found a simple way
to know.
If you have any doubts please share with me. And also
share if you know any thing better and simple way for
mining contacts.
I also recommend Jigsaw.com , Lead411.com
for contacts mining. This gives good results too.
Thank you