I love creating tools that solve everyday problems that I have in my work. The following tools were incredibly useful for me at eG Innovations where we were dealing with tens of thousands of email addresses.

Use this form to analyze your list and automatically count how many webmail addresses vs business addresses you have.

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Got a big list of email addresses and no names? This tool is for you.

This tool extracts the first name and last name from an email address and outputs it in separate columns. It’s super useful when you’ve been given a list of corporate emails but no first name and last name but want to send an email with a “Hi {name}” opening. It also works if you want to update your CRM but didn’t collect a name on the form.

This tool has been used 7 times

(Of course, if the email address is something like cooldude84@gmail.com then no amount of sourcery is going to find the person’s name!)

Discovered any problems with this tool? Let me know in the comments!

Looking to figure out what country an email address is from? This tool does exactly that.

With this tool you can enter your email addresses and it’ll automatically work out the country based on the domain extension.

For example, if the email address is adam.smith@google.nl then based on the domain extension we know the person is most likely located in the Netherlands. Of course, there are country code domain extensions like .co and .io which no longer map to their country of origin because they have become global domains.

For .com .io .ai and other generic domain extensions, the tool lists the user as being in the US or Global.

Like this tool? Found a problem? Let me know in the comments!