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2 points by samtoday 9 years ago · 3 comments

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petercooper 9 years ago

I don't know how this system does it, but I've done this with FullContact before (and https://clearbit.com/ will do it too). I have a few hundred thousand people and get about 50-60%.

Recently we tried using this data in the "To" field of emails we sent but it actually caused open rates to go down for some reason, so still figuring that one out. Investigations with a few users showed using the full envelope caused emails to go into different inboxes than were expected, but if you can do it from the get go it would be a great technique.

hultner 9 years ago

How is success rate measured? I tried it and got an empty answer.

  > Informal name:
  > 
  > Full name:
  > 
  > Hope that it has worked well!
  > …
  • samtodayOP 9 years ago

    Success rate is the % of people who we can find a name for. So you didn't encounter a success :)

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