Hunter

I know you might think that e-mail marketing is a thing of the past. It’s one of the oldest forms of communication on the internet. But, I’m here to tell you that this is not the case. E-mail marketing is still a fucking staple, especially in mainstream circles. As for the adult industry, well, it’s hard mode, but it’s far from pointless. There’s so much you can achieve if you know exactly what you’re doing and, of course, if you avoid getting blacklisted. That’s really the one thing you want to try and avoid. And even then, there are ways to get around those kinds of limitations. You can always get a new mail server.

The hardest part of e-mail marketing is getting your hands on the actual e-mail addresses of people who might be interested in the products you’re peddling. Now, you might be thinking: I peddle smut. Why don’t I just send that smut to every single e-mail address I can get my hands on? Well, you can’t do that because that’s exactly how you get blacklisted by major e-mail hosts. Gmail will have you dead in the water before your first campaign results come in. You want to send e-mails to specific individuals and make sure that they’re worth targeting. For that reason, you’ll need Hunter. Now, Hunter isn’t a product, per-se. It’s more of a collection of tools that are all kept here on Hunter.Io, under one umbrella. There are many tools and you’re free to mix and match. But, regardless of which tools you actually end up using, you are damn certain to find them crucial, provided you’re running some form of e-mail marketing.

Scraping Sites

The very first tool you’ll see on Hunter.Io is a search bar that they’ve got down the middle of their home page. It’s an interactive demo of what their tool looks like if you were to actually use it to scrape businesses for relevant e-mails. You can put in any domain you’re interested in and get a ton of e-mails that are registered to that domain’s mail server. But, you could theoretically do this with a standard scraping tool. What’s the catch? Well, Hunter has a huge ever-growing database of personal information that they tie to the actual e-mails. It’s nothing too invasive. They just want you to know who you’re emailing. So, if you’re looking for a particular person who works at a particular company, Hunter can help you get your hands on their e-mail address so that you can contact them directly. It’s pretty simple stuff.

They went above and beyond, though. If you put in a scrape order for a website, you don’t just get a smattering of random e-mails. No, siree. You get all of the e-mails from that entire site broken down in a proper CSV file for export. You can download that CSV and plop it into any data management software you’d like to use. So, you can paste that shit into Excel and grow an already existing database that you’re using. Hell, if you’ve got some sort of e-mail remarketing tool that you’re familiar with, you can feed the data in there and just add these people to specific campaigns that you’ve already got set up. It’s fucking brilliant.

Automated to Hell and Back

What if you don’t want to copy and paste the data, though? What if you do not want to download a CSV? What if, instead, you’ve already got some e-mail data and personal information and you’d like to fill in the blanks without doing any manual labor? Well, that’s where the plugins come in. You can get a Chrome extension that naturally works perfectly with Google Sheets and automatically populates all the fields. That’s right. – Hunter will straight up fill in all the blanks and check all of your e-mails for recent changes, in case someone is using a new e-mail that they managed to leak out there somehow. If you want to make sure that your e-mail data is up to date and accurate, this plugin will make the whole process completely seamless.

Hunter is pretty much known for the automated nature of their tools. They make every bit of the process seamless, because they know how difficult this kind of work can get when you’re operating with large volumes of e-mail addresses. That work can become exponentially larger if you’re juggling multiple e-mail campaigns at the same time. So, whether you’re using Hunter to actually send your e-mails or not, it doesn’t matter. The entire process of actually getting those addresses will be automated, so you don’t have to click individual fields yourself. It’s a fucking godsend.

E-Mail Marketing Ideas

As if they weren’t an amazing enough company already, Hunter has a small list of pre-written standardized e-mails that they threw in for the hell of it. You’re free to use these any way you want. They’re just … out there for the world to download. They’re written in a content spin format, meaning that several keywords (not keywords) are written in brackets so that an auto-mailer or a content spinner can just insert any necessary data in there and send the e-mails out programmatically. I wasn’t kidding when I said that these guys really want to automate every single process. We’re very much living in the future now. Hell, if you combine Hunter’s tools with a bunch of automated web hosting and content supply tools, you could have your porn empire run itself.

As for the actual e-mail templates, well, I have to say, they’re really great. They’re perfectly written and it’s clear that they were put together by someone who knows how to rake in clicks from e-mails. They’re professional, but not boring. I’m not sure how you could actually work them into a porn theme, but I believe in you. Just swap out all the keywords for your actual product’s information and hop to it. You’ll do a great job and you’re sure to get some responses.

Tracking your Progress

Next up on the list of amazing offers that you get with Hunter is the tracking information from all of your e-mails. If you want to, you can opt into a tracking pixel functionality that tells you when people open your e-mails. It tells you who opened them and at what time. This is a great way to get some insight into how effective your actual e-mails are.

Without proper e-mail tracking, you more or less have no way of knowing where the damn things end up or how well they perform, unless a recipient actually follows the links back to your site. And, that’s pretty rare. You want to have information on the actual viewing, not just the clicking. Hunter can help you out immensely.

It’s Not Shady

Hunter address this and I’m going to address it too – They’re not data thieves. You might be wondering about how they actually manage to get their hands on so many individual e-mail accounts without being shady. Well, it’s pretty damn simple. They’re in the business of web scraping. They visit individual web pages, automatically, of course, and scrape them for e-mail information. When that data is publically available, there’s nothing unethical about them sending it your way. Technically, they charge you for the tools that you’re using and not for the actual data. They charge you per search, not per e-mail, so you can’t even call them manipulative. They’re doing a great job.

And, if someone’s e-mail is removed from the public source it was retrieved from, it gets removed from Hunter. This ensures that they don’t share the personal contact information of people who straight up don’t want to have their e-mails leaked. If you wanted to you could find these e-mails yourself, without the aid of Hunter. You’re literally just paying them to speed things along.

Affordable Services

Speaking of paying for Hunter, you get all the basic functionality for free, with up to 50 searched and verifications every month. Unfortunately, you can’t have team members join you in a collaboration under this kind of account. It’s mostly just for personal use and testing. There are also no premium features.

If you bump up to $49 a month, billed monthly, you get a whopping 500 searches and 500 verifications, plus you can have unlimited users collaborate through your account. You also get access to domain search exports and entire result dumps with marketing campaigns and priority support.

All the other tiers above that are identical, but they increase the number of searches and verifications you can have in a given month up to 30,000 for $399 a month. You should run an estimate on how much volume you need and pay for the appropriate tier. It’s that simple.