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You get an email from a person with whom you have never interacted before and therefore, before you reply to that message, you would like to know something more about him or her. How do you do this without directly asking the other person?
Web search engines are obviously the most popular place for performing reverse email lookups but if the person you’re trying to research doesn’t have a website or has never interacted with his email address on public forums before, Google will probably be of little help.
No worries, here are few tips and online services that may still help you uncover the identity of that unknown email sender.
#1. Find the sender’s location
Open the header of the email message and look for lines that say “Received: from” followed by an IP address in square brackets. If there are multiple entries, use the IP address mentioned in the last entry.
Now paste the IP address in this trace route tool and you should get a fairly good idea about the location of the email sender.
#2. Reverse email search with Facebook
Facebook has 450 million users worldwide and there’s a high probability that the sender may also have a profile on Facebook.
Unlike LinkedIn and most other social networks, Facebook lets you search users by email address so that should make your job simpler. Just paste the email address of the sender into the Facebook search box and you’ll immediately know if a matching profile exists in the network.
If you are able to locate that person on Facebook, download his profile picture and then upload it to TinEye – it’s a reverse image search engine so you can locate his other social profiles where he may have used the same picture.
#3. Check all the other Social Networks
You can use a service like Knowem to quickly determine if a profile with a particular username exists in any of the social networks.
If the email address of the send is something like green_peas@hotmail.com, there’s a probably that he or she may have created accounts of some other social network using the same alias “green_peas” – put that in knowem.com to confirm.
#4. People Search
Finally, if nothing works, you should try a people search service like Pipl and Spokeo – both services let you perform reverse email lookups but Spokeo has a more comprehensive database than Pipl.
Other than regular web documents, Spoke also scans social networks and even the whois information of domain names to find any bit of information associated with an email address. However, some of the results returned by Spokeo are only available to subscribers.
Also see: Find Postal Addresses with Google Maps
Find the Person Behind an Email Address
Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.
Stuff No-One Told Me is a cartoon blog by illustrator Alex Noriega. His stuff reads like a Cathy cartoon, but way more funny. You know how sometimes you find inspiration that just exactly fits where you’re at that day? This was that for me this afternoon. Via Kris Atomic.
Creating a startup, or managing any business, is all about problem solving.
Some people are good at it and some are not – independent of their IQ or their academic credentials (there may even be an inverse relationship here).
Yet I’m convinced that problem solving is a learnable trait, rather than just a birthright.
Entrepreneurs who are great problem solvers within any business are the best prepared to solve their customers’ needs effectively as well.
In fact, every business is about solutions to customer problems – no problems, no business. Problems are an everyday part of every business and personal environment.
Thus it behooves all of us work on mastering the discipline of problem solving. Here is a formula from Brian Tracy, in his book “The Power of Self-Discipline” that I believe will help entrepreneurs move up a notch in this category.
Martin Zwilling is CEO & Founder of Startup Professionals, Inc.; he also serves as Board Member and Executive in Residence at Callaman Ventures and is an advisory board member for multiple startups. This post was originally published on his blog, and it is republished here with permission.
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In some cases, a small problem can become a big one with inappropriate actions.
In all cases, real clarity will expedite the path ahead.
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They’re not problems; they are merely facts of life.
Often, what appears to be a problem is actually an opportunity in disguise.
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The more ways you can define a problem, the more likely it is that you will find the best solution.
For example, “sales are too low” may mean strong competitors, ineffective advertising, or a poor sales process.
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If you don’t get to the root, the problem will likely recur, perhaps with different symptoms.
Don’t waste time re-solving the same problem.
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The quality of the solution seems to be in direct proportion to the quantity of solutions considered in problem solving.
There is a rule that says that every large problem was once a small problem that could have been solved easily at that time.
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The longer you put off deciding on what to do, the higher the cost, and the larger the impact.
Your objective should be to deal with 80% of all problems immediately.
At the very least, set a specific deadline for making a decision and stick to it.
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Otherwise nothing will happen, and you have no recourse but to implement all solutions yourself.
Problem solutions in a complex system often have unintended side effects which can be worse than the original problem.
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In fact, success is often defined as “the ability to solve problems.”
In many cultures, this is called “street smarts,” and it’s valued even more than “book smarts.” Be smart.
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