{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Software & SaaS Review","title":"How to Find a Business Owner's Email Address for Free (2026)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":437,"description":"How to Find a Business Owner's Email Address for Free (2026)\nEvery agency owner, freelancer, and B2B service provider hits the same wall: how do you find a verified business email without paying hundreds of dollars for a contact database? There is a working method that costs about a dollar. Mike Lovatt posted it on r/B2BSales in October 2026, and it deserves a proper walkthrough. You need three tools: Claude (desktop app or Claude Code, though ChatGPT works fine too), a DataForSEO account (new accounts get one dollar of free trial credit, enough for several Google Maps searches), and a Hunter account on the free plan (fifty verification credits per month). Connect Claude to DataForSEO through DataForSEO's official MCP server by following the guide in their help centre titled \"Connect Claude to DataForSEO MCP.\" Paste in your API login and password and the connection is live. Then prompt Claude to pull businesses by name, website, phone, rating, and review count from Google Maps for a specific trade in a specific area. Run each website through Hunter to find and verify the email on that domain before you contact anyone.\nBeing specific is the part most people skip. Search the exact trade, not the broad category. Mike searched \"landscapers in San Jose\" and got fifty results back. Nineteen were tree services. Only eleven mentioned turf anywhere on their site. San Jose alone did not have fifty real turf installers, so he widened the area to the Bay Area. The corrected list returned thirty-six real turf companies, twenty-two that mention turf on their own site, and zero tree services. Of the thirty-six, only nine listed an owner's name, and two had a personal-looking email address. The rest were shared inboxes. Write for whoever opens the shared inbox, not for a named person you cannot confirm. Never skip Hunter verification. Sending to dead addresses is the fastest way to get your sending domain flagged. Cold email to businesses must follow the rules where you send,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/M57-zlUGHXBPDZrDLbepWRrOt_I4AFRWCzyAR4AHOW8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMmQ5/MDBjZmRkMTBlZDY1/ZWU4NzE5YTNkMTFk/NGY3My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}