Hunter vs. Surfe

The scenario we most commonly use Hunter for is to quickly find and retrieve contact email information. Phone numbers are an added bonus, but they tend to only be available for contacts in the US. SDRs have the extension in order to confirm or to help them "guess" as to what a contact's email address might be. This speeds up our prospecting time considerably. Where Hunter falls short is not being flexible where companies have more than one email format.

Incentivized

Surfe is really a great help/support for our marketing and data team. It saves plenty of time and manual work. We are totally happy with the product and also setup was done in 5 Min.

• Hunter provides a quick and easy way to look up the email format for any company using the free Google Chrome extension.
• Hunter allows you to upload a bulk list of emails and verify them easily.
• Hunter shows where verified emails were found on web pages and PDF documents. This shows that the emails were published by trusted sources.

Incentivized

• Easy to set up in both directions
• Getting account data out of LinkedIn
• Searching for Contact options, i.e. E-Mail and phone
• Getting Company Data out of LinkedIn

• Hunter is only as valuable as the information it is able to scrape from the internet. If a company has not listed any email addresses online, then Hunter is not going to be able to find it.
• Sometimes Hunter is only able to identify non-personal-specific email addresses (ex: info @, support@, etc.). This makes it difficult to identify personnel emails
• Sometimes companies will have different email domains that Hunter is not able to correlate. For example, when searching for an email address at Lead.com, Hunter is not able to point to ParentCompany.com email addresses that would be more useful.

Incentivized

• After installing the Chrome Plugin, LinkedIn is a bit slower than before
• Pricing is okay, but import from Sales Navigator should be included in the Basic Package

I think the features are good, but it makes my brain hurt (and feel overtaxed) when I have to jump between searching by name and domain and then searching via a specific email to verify. I wish I could do all of that from one landing page, one über search bar.

Incentivized

Hunter is a good all in one solution, which hasnt always been the case as it used to be a daa only solution. However, other tools like lemlist as slightly more user friendly and make it so simple to build and launch multi-channel campaigns , and do this slightly better than Hunter.

Incentivized

• Definitely Hunter has built lead lists for our clients in a very fast way for our clients.
• It has managed to cut the times of preparation of lead lists in more than 200% of the time compared to other traditional ways.
• Our clients can now have tons of leads and deliver contents in a faster way to validate these prospects.

Incentivized

• Saves time in research
• Getting data and helping to build a database out of a paid platform