Want your cold emails to land in your prospects’ inboxes?
Then, it’s essential to keep your bounce rate under 5%! (Bounce rate is the percentage of emails that aren’t delivered.)
High bounce rates can harm your email deliverability.
When your email deliverability is compromised, many of your messages won't reach your audience, meaning your email outreach will have a poor ROI.
The key to keeping your bounce rate under control is to only send emails to verified, valid email addresses.
That means you have to verify an email before sending email to it. If you send email to unverified emails, it will hurt your deliverability.
In this article, you'll find 5 proven methods to validate email addresses without sending emails and risking your sender reputation.
At lemlist, we created a tool to verify 10 emails for free. ⬇️
If you need to bulk verify large lists of emails, check out lemlist’s Email Finder and Verifier. It allows you to find and verify emails for your leads.
Email Finder and Verifier finds up to 80% of valid emails for your leads, whereas other tools only get to 60% or less.
A valid email address should have the following format:
username + "@" symbol + domain name
✅ [email protected]
❌ peterk.johnconsulting.com
A quick search on Google or social media platforms will show you if the email address is used elsewhere and, therefore, likely legit. ⬇️
Your prospects are more likely to use long-standing domains for work purposes. Newly created domains can sometimes be used for spam or similar purposes.
You can check the age of a domain using a domain checker tool like Small SEO Tools!
A quicker way to verify emails is by using a bulk email verifier tool.
One of the easiest ways to find and verify leads' email addresses on the market is to use lemlist's Email Finder and Verifier.
It not only finds your leads’ email addresses, but it automatically verifies those emails as well.
Thanks to the waterfall enrichment method, Email Finder and Verifier combines the best third-party data sources to give you 40-55% more valid emails. This is the equivalent of asking 6 different providers for up-to-date leads’ information without navigating and subscribing to multiple apps.
Here's how to do it 👇
For leads that already have an email address, you can verify their email address with one click.
In the second step of the campaign setup process for your "Lead list" after importing, you will come across the "Set up import settings" section.
Here, you will have the option to choose from various enrichments, including:
If your leads are already in your campaign - select your leads by bulk or one by one, and click on the three dots at the top right to choose "Verify email".
For each lead, lemlist will:
1.➡️ Clean lead's first and last name
2.➡️ Extract and save relevant information from their LinkedIn profiles (if available)
3.➡️ In case more emails are found, keep the best email found for the lead
4.➡️ Display the status of the email
5. ➡️ If available, save additional information such as phone number, civility, job title, and other relevant details.
By executing these steps, you'll get the lead's comprehensive and accurate information, which will allow you to reach their inboxes and open new opportunities.
In the leads section of your campaign, by hovering above the enrich stats icon, you can see a portion of leads with different statuses in your campaign:
The cost of the following actions:
- Email Finder: 5 credits per lead
- Verify email: 1 credit per lead
- LinkedIn enrichment: 2 credits per lead
New lemlist users receive 100 Free Credits as part of their trial.
Free credits are also included in paying plans, reset monthly. The number of Free Credits varies based on the plan:
Plus, users can purchase Additional Credits for $0.01 each. These credits will fully roll over to next month! 🛞
Here's the list of other reliable tools to perform a valid email check:
Simply upload your email list to their platform, and they will deliver you a CSV report that labels undeliverable and risky emails to avoid.
You can spend hours writing perfect emails for the right audience, but if you send them to invalid email addresses, they will never see them.
You will lose time and resources. But the worst part of sending to unverified emails is that it hurts your deliverability.
More and more of your emails will land in spam, leading to a continuously decreasing ROI.
To ensure that won't happen to you, you must only send to verified emails.
To check whether an e-mail is valid, the first step is to find your prospects' e-mails. To do this, you can use our free email finder.
G2 Rating | Price | Best for | Standout feature | Con | |
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4.9 star star star star star | $30/mo $75/mo $2,999/mo | Large, distributed sales teams | AI evaluation precision, gamified KPIs | Lack of tracking system | |
4.6 star star star star star-half | Not publicly available | Sales operations and finance teams | Powerful configurability | Limited training resources and complex to navigate | |
4.4 star star star star star-half | Not publicly available | Mid-market and enterprise businesses | Comprehensive incentive management | Potentially high cost and steep learning curve | |
4.7 star star star star star-half | $15/user/mo $40/user/mo Enterprise: custom price | Complex sales structures and businesses of all sizes | Complex sales structures and businesses of all sizes | Steep learning curve | |
4.6 star star star star star-half | Not publicly available | Collaborative teams | Connected planning | Complexity and steep learning curve | |
4.6 star star star star star-half | Not publicly available | Companies with complex sales structures | Complex incentive compensation management (ICM) with high efficiency and accuracy | Complexity for smaller teams and potentially high costs | |
4.7 star star star star star-half | Not publicly available | Companies who want to automate commission calculations and payouts | Simplicity and ease of use | Lack of features like redirection | |
4.7 star star star star star-half | $30/user/mo $35/user/mo Custom: upon request | Businesses that need a comprehensive and user-friendly sales compensation management software | Ease of use and adoption | Lack of ability to configure the product based on user needs | |
4.8 star star star star star-half | Not publicly available | Companies with modern sales culture and businesses who want real-time insights | A built-in dispute management and real-time visibility | Users say it works slowly, customer support is slow | |
4.9 star star star star star | $30/user/mo $50/user/mo | Smaller sales teams | Powerful automation | Lesser user base and average user interface | |
4.7 star star star star star-half | Not publicly available | Companies with scalable needs | Automated Commission Calculations | Lack of filtering by date, no mobile app |
PRM Tool | Rating | Feature | Pro | Con | Mobile App | Integrations | Free Plan | Pricing |
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4.65 star star star star star-half | Org-wide alignment | User-friendly layout and database | Suboptimal as a personal CRM | square-check | Lack of tracking system | square-check | Team: $20/month Business: $45/month | |
4.7 star star star star star-half | Social Media Integration | Easy contact data collection | No marketing/sales features | square-check | Lack of tracking system | square-xmark 7-day trial | $12/month | |
4.75 star star star star star-half | Block Functions | High customization capability | Not a dedicated CRM | square-check | Limited | square-check | Plus: €7.50/month Business: €14/month | |
N/A | Open-source | Open-source flexibility | Requires extensive manual input | square-xmark | Limited | square-check Self-hosted | $9/month or $90/year | |
3.1 star star star | Simple iOS app | Ideal for non-tech-savvy users | iPhone only | square-check iOS only | Limited | square-xmark 1-month trial | $1.49/month or $14.99/month | |
3.6 star star star star-half | Smart Contact Management | Feature-rich and flexible | Reported bugs | square-check | Rich | square-xmark 7-day trial | Premium: $13.99/month Teams: $17.99/month | |
4.4 star star star star star-half | Customizable Interface | Customizable for teamwork | Pricey for personal use | square-check | Rich | square-xmark | Standard: $24/member Premium: $39/member | |
4.7 star star star star star-half | Integrated Calling | Integrated Calling | Too sales-oriented & pricey | square-check | Rich | square-xmark 14-day trial | Startup: $59/user/month Professional: $329/user/month | |
4.8 star star star star star | Business Card Scanning | Business Card Scanning | Mobile only | square-check | Limited | square-check | $9.99/month | |
4.45 star star star star star-half | 160+ app integrations | Comprehensive integrations | No free app version | square-check | Rich | square-xmark 14-day trial | $29.90/month or $24.90/month (billed annually) |
Capterra Rating | Free Trial | Free Plan | Starting Price (excluding the free plan) | Maximum Price (for the most expensive plan) | Best for | |
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4.5 star star star star star-half | square-check 14-day | square-check | €15/month/seat billed annually | €792/month/3 seats billed annually + €45/month for each extra seat | Versatility and free plan | |
4.2 star star star star | square-check 30-day | square-xmark But it offers reduced price to authorised nonprofit organisations | €25/user/month | €500/user/month billed annually (includes Einstein AI) | Best overall operational CRM | |
4.3 star star star star star-half | square-xmark | square-check Limited to 3 users | Comprehensive incentive management | €52/user/month billed annually | Small-medium businesses and automation | |
4.5 star star star star star-half | square-check 14-day | square-xmark | €14/seat/month billed annually | €99/seat/month billed annually | Sales teams and ease of use | |
4.1 star star star star | square-xmark | square-check Limited 10 users | $9.99/user/month billed annually | $64.99/user/month billed annually | Free plan for very small teams up to 10 |
CRM goal | Increase the sales conversion rate for qualified leads from marketing automation campaigns by 10% in the next 6 months. | ||||
SMART Breakdown | 1. Specific: It targets a specific area (conversion rate) for a defined segment (qualified leads from marketing automation). | 2. Measurable: The desired increase (10%) is a clear metric, and the timeframe (6 months) allows for progress tracking. | 3. Achievable: A 10% increase is possible based on historical data and potential improvements. | 4. Relevant: Boosting sales from marketing efforts aligns with overall business objectives. | 5. Time-bound: The 6-month timeframe creates urgency and a clear target date. |
Actions | Step 1: Refine lead qualification criteria to ensure high-quality leads are nurtured through marketing automation. | Step 2: Personalize marketing automation campaigns based on lead demographics, interests, and behavior. | Step 3: Develop targeted landing pages with clear calls to action for qualified leads. | Step 4: Implement lead scoring to prioritize high-potential leads for sales follow-up. | Step 5: Track and analyze campaign performance to identify areas for optimization. |
Outcomes | Increased sales and revenue | Improved marketing automation ROI | Marketing and sales alignment | Data-driven marketing optimization |