[Fredslist] How to find Email addresses of top executives at largecorporations (or other elusive email addresses)

[Phyllis Weiss Haserot]

Thank you for this very helpful "tutorial," Harry. It will be very useful 
for lots of us Gotham members, and I appreciate your sharing your experience 
with searching.

Once again, all best wishes for your new venture. I hope it proves to be a 
happy and successful move for you.
Phyllis

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Silverstein" <hsilvers at chicagogsb.edu>
To: "Gotham" <fredslist at gothamnetworking.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 8:39 AM
Subject: [Fredslist] How to find Email addresses of top executives at 
largecorporations (or other elusive email addresses)


> Gotham,
>
> In light of recent Gotham efforts to reach decision makers at T- Mobile 
> and Dell in order to sound the voice of the consumer, I  thought that I 
> would send out a short tutorial of how I use the  Internet to find these 
> bigwigs in their ivory towers.  These methods  are by no means foolproof - 
> you may not find an address (I am sure  there are people who can use these 
> same ideas to remove executive  emails from the web), you may find an 
> incorrect address, or the  person may simply not respond - but it is one 
> more tool in your  efforts to be heard.  Please feel free to contact me if 
> you have any  questions.
>
> The first thing I do is assess to whom I should be speaking.  Many 
> websites offer lists of executives at a given company.  As an  example, 
> check out the Dell entry at hoovers.com:
>
> http://hoovers.com/free/co/people.xhtml?ID=13193
>
> Hoover's asks you to sign up for a free trial to find all but the  very 
> top executives, but you could always cancel afterward.
>
> Google finance and Yahoo finance are other good places to find these 
> lists.
>
> I also creatively use Google to search for titles and disciplines I'd 
> like to find.
>
> For instance, I typed "dell head customer service" and got a Business 
> Week story from June 2006 about their new head of customer service,  Dick 
> Hunter (funny, and probably appropriate, name).
>
> To find an email address of a particular executive, in a Google  search 
> field I type the executive's name, and in quotes  "@domainname.com".  So 
> for instance, for Michael Dell, I  typed ,verbatim:
>
> Michael Dell "@dell.com"
>
> If you sort through the results, you can often find otherwise  difficult 
> to obtain emails.
>
> Lastly, even if you can't find the specific executive email you seek,  you 
> can often find the convention.  Simply type "@dell.com", and you  will see 
> that the convention seems to be first_last at dell.com.  Then  you can try 
> sending to richard_hunter at dell.com,   michael_dell at dell.com, or whatever 
> contact you may be seeking.  If  multiple formats come up, try all of them 
> at the same time for a  better chance of success.  If you get a reply, it 
> will be from the  one that worked!
>
> Happy hunting,
> ____
> Harry Silverstein
> Co-Owner
> Red, White & Bleu
> hsilvers at chicagogsb.edu
> 917-797-3967
>
>
>
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