How to Get Emails for People with Missing Company Information + Effective Steps to Clean and Validate Your Email List

Daria · 2024-01-29T11:36:22.31303+00:00

Hi all! 1. I followed this tutorial to get emails for my list. Once I pulled people’s names and added a ‘company website’ column, I noticed that for many people in my list, the company cell remained empty (even if when I manually check the person’s LinkedIn profile, I can find it). So, how do I get emails for those kinds of people on my list? 2. Once the list is built in clay - are there any other steps (like cleaning with email validation tools, elaborating on catch-all emails) still worth doing? If so, what workflow have you found effective? Thank you!

Daria

Hi all!

1.
I followed this tutorial to get emails for my list. Once I pulled people’s names and added a ‘company website’ column, I noticed that for many people in my list, the company cell remained empty (even if when I manually check the person’s LinkedIn profile, I can find it). So, how do I get emails for those kinds of people on my list?
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Once the list is built in clay - are there any other steps (like cleaning with email validation tools, elaborating on catch-all emails) still worth doing? If so, what workflow have you found effective?

Thank you!

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Daria
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https://app.clay.com/workspaces/209458/tables/t_60FIPshTR1kt/views/gv_en6SIGZYVD4R
Stefan R.
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I didn't completely understand this part, but if you have the persons's name + company website, you can find their email addresses without even enriching their profile. If the Find Email enrichment didn't return results for some of the rows, that's normal, as email finding tools can't find all emails - the best tools find emails for around 70% - 80% of the rows.
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Yes, a DeBounce / NeverBounce email validation is a must to protect the health of your email accounts. If your TAM is big enough, a best practice is to not send emails to catch-alls. If your TAM is small and you want to validate catch-alls, you can use something like Scrubby to do this.
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Clay Team
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Here's a video on how to set up a waterfall in Clay to maximize coverage and minimize the amount of credits you spend by combining providers- https://www.clay.com/learn/find-work-emails-from-linkedin
Daria
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Stefan R. Thank you for your reply! Could you give more details on how you find email addresses using the person’s name + company website without enrichment?
Daria
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Juan P. It seems that the UI appears a bit different from what I see in the video you shared. So, I assume to implement what you explain in the video, I have to choose ‘waterfall multiple providers’?
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yes, as long as you have company domain and full name its possible
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Daria
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got it thanks
Daria
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Juan P. how/where to set API keys? (I am a new user)
Daria
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Also, is there a way to pull some data (NOT all columns) to my table in Clay from another CSV that I have?
Stefan R.
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Yes, there's a way to pull some columns to your table from a CSV. Use the import CSV option and when you see the list of columns, map only the ones that you need.
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Stefan R.
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To set the API keys, click on the settings button and choose "Configure API Keys"
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Clay Team
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delete claygent as an option
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Stefan R.
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For all of these you can actually use Clay credits. You must set up an API for the Claygent only. However, if you don't want to use that one, you can click on the Settings button and delete Claygent.
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Only allows API key for this workflow
Daria
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Stefan R. I want to get emails—that’s what I want😅, and I want to find a sufficient workflow for it, but I can’t say if I ‘want or not’ to use ‘claygent’ in particular for this purpose. From your and Juan’s responses, it sounds better to not use?
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yes, delete claygent as its blocking the workflow please
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Clay Team
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por the rest you can use clay credits
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Daria
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Got it, thanks! Juan P. Regarding the import of specific columns from CSV, I’m not there yet. I found the option to import CSV, but I don’t see any way to select specific columns while using it.
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Hey Daria! It will import the available columns you have in your CSV, so if you don't want all of them, it's best to clean this up before downloading the CSV from the other source.Alternatively, you can still hide the columns once you finish the import into Clay. And, you do get the option to map columns if you're adding another CSV to that existing table, that's in case the headers don't match.
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