How To Find Anyone’s Phone Number (3 Best Tools)

Getting people's phone numbers is crucial for cold calling and text/SMS marketing. However, it isn’t easy since most people hesitate to share their contact information. In this post, I’ll show you the best methods to find someone’s phone number and introduce some tools to do it automatically.

The best 6 ways to find someone’s phone number:

01. Use people's search engines

People search engines like AnyWho provide phone numbers for thousands of contacts. The database of this search engine is updated weekly and it allows you to find someone’s phone number free of charge.

02. Try reliable directories

Try specialized directories for finding phone numbers. Just be cautious as not all of them are trustworthy. Among reliable directories are TruePeopleSearch, White Pages, and SpyDialer.

03. Look up on Google

Google may become quite handy, but you need to provide additional information to get the contact information (e.g. your prospect's name, job position, residential area, and so forth). The more details you provide, the better your chances of finding phone numbers of people you’re interested in.

04. Browse social pages

Social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and more, gather users’ phone numbers to enhance account security and facilitate online connections. Try searching for the social media profiles of your prospects. With some luck, you may discover the number displayed there.

05. Visit company websites

Some companies provide direct contact numbers or departmental phone numbers for their staff. Therefore, thoroughly examine the targeted company’s website contact page. You can use features like click-to-call to dial the number right from a website without wasting your time on annoying copypasting.

How to find the phone number of a particular person within a company if only company contact information is provided? Call the operator and try asking around for the person you’re looking for.

06. Try phone number lookup tools

Above were recommendations on how to find someone’s phone number for free. If none of the ways described above has worked, rely on special tools that will help you get a phone number without wasting much time and resources.

Take the difficulty out of finding phone numbers with the help of these three powerful tools.

#1. RevDriver

RevDriver is a Google Chrome extension that speeds up sales prospecting by providing verified and up-to-date direct dials and phone numbers for your prospects. It also offers access to other contact details like email addresses and company information, including firmographics and technographics.

Once you install RevDriver, you can visit any LinkedIn profile or company website to find phone numbers for your target prospects. You can also identify key decision-makers and influencers, gathering their contact details while refining your search using filters such as title, name, or job level.

RevDriver includes a credit counter, which is especially helpful for freemium users to track the number of contact reveals. Freemium users can find phone numbers for free, with 100 reveals available per month.

Here’s a quick overview of RevDriver:

• Discover phone numbers for decision-makers, influencers, and advocates across social media and websites.
• Freemium users can export contact data to their CRM or marketing automation platform.
• Premium users can reveal data for an unlimited number of people or companies.
• Premium users can request research-on-demand for specific contacts.

#2. Wiza

Wiza is a free and powerful Chrome extension that reveals verified phone numbers on LinkedIn profiles. It provides not only mobile and landline numbers but also real-time verified email addresses (both work and personal) and company data — all with just one click.

To use Wiza, simply install the Chrome extension and visit the LinkedIn profile where you want to reveal contact information. Click “Find email & phone” under their LinkedIn profile card, and Wiza will quickly find, verify, and reveal the details.

Wiza offers some free credits per month. Paid plans start at $49/month and go up to unlimited plans at $166/month (billed annually), which include unlimited phone numbers and emails.

Key features of Wiza:

• Find verified phone numbers for efficient B2B outreach.
• Save contacts and phone numbers to custom lists.
• Export your lists to CSV or sync them to your CRM and sales tools.
• Powered by real-time verification to ensure contact data is always accurate.
• Works with LinkedIn Sales Navigator and LinkedIn Recruiter for exporting leads.

#3. SalesIntel

SalesIntel is a leader in this field, offering human-verified B2B contact and company data with 95% accuracy. The tool provides reliable contact information, including mobile and direct phone numbers, along with detailed B2B insights into your target audience through company data.

SalesIntel also offers data enrichment services to help you avoid outdated information, automatically or manually enrich accounts, add missing contact data, and keep your records up to date.

Key features of SalesIntel:

• They offer the most direct dials in the industry.
• They have over 6.2 million human-verified contacts.
• Their database includes more than 77 million machine-processed data points.
• Data is reverified every 90 days to ensure accuracy.
• The platform integrates with Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot, and more.

Wrapping up

Finding phone numbers is not an easy task. Having said that, you can speed up the process and make it less challenging with the help of the eight tools explained above. You can also try other ways like caller ID apps such as Truecaller to find a phone number. With Truecaller, you can find mobile numbers, phone numbers, and other contact information for people or businesses, with features like phone number lookup and name search.

Whichever method or tool you use, ensure that the phone numbers you find are legitimate and active. One of the easiest ways to do that is to simply call the phone numbers. Another way is to use a phone validator, which makes sense when you have a giant list of phone numbers to check.

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