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This video uses sample data, not real Clutch data. It doesn't show how to scrape, and Clutch doesn't supply these email addresses. BillionVerify is not affiliated with or endorsed by Clutch. File verification and finder tools need a paid account.

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1. 00:00What Clutch gives you

   Clutch counts over 350,000 B2B service providers in its directories. Once you pick one, it offers two ways to reach them, and neither is an email address. Those two ways are a project submission, or a message from the profile. If that suits you, use it. For your own outreach, the email step happens outside Clutch. Clutch's terms rule out the shortcut. No scraping, no crawling, and no collecting its information beyond what they allow. So read Clutch like a buyer does, and keep your shortlist short. Watch the order while you shortlist. On a review page, sponsors come first by default. Clutch says that doesn't change rank. It changes position. So sort by what you care about. And leave reviewers out of it. Clutch makes them a promise when they sign in. A review is evidence about a company.

2. 00:53From company to email

   It isn't a lead. Your shortlist was step one. Step two, take each company to its own website, and note the domain. That domain becomes the key for everything after it. One company can turn up twice. Clutch gives listed companies a profile on The Manifest as well. If you researched both, remove repeats by domain before you pay to look anything up. Step three. Company Search takes a domain and returns the emails that company has published. It uses five credits per returned email, and it needs a paid account. Step four, only if you need a person. Get the name from the company's own team page. Then Email Finder takes name and domain, and returns a verified work address. A match uses ten credits. So which do you want? A published address suits a small agency, where it reaches the owner's desk. A named person suits a bigger firm, where a shared inbox gets filtered. That's a judgment call.

3. 01:48Verify and route

   It's yours to make. Step five. Anything you didn't get from Finder goes through verification. Add your CSV here. It carries on while you do something else. Here's a breakdown from larger sample lists, not Clutch data. Yours will differ. Careful with one word. A review marked Not Verified means Clutch couldn't confirm the reviewer or the project. A verified address is a different test, on a different thing. Don't let one stand in for the other. Small agencies often sit on catch-all domains, so send those separately and lightly. Write role addresses for a team. Valid goes in the main send, unknown goes to review, and invalid goes to suppression.

4. 02:28What it costs

   Verification takes one credit for valid, invalid, catch-all and role. Unknown, bad syntax and disposable are free. Remember Finder's ten credits and Company Search's five. Those tools and file uploads all sit behind a paid account.

5. 02:41Get started free

   20 free credits every day you use your account, up to 600 a month. No credit card required. Start at billionverify.com.

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