How to get business emails from Google Maps, by hand and automatically

Google Maps gives you a business's name, address, phone, website and rating, but almost never an email. So collecting contacts takes two steps: find the businesses on the map, then find the email on their websites. Here's how to do it by hand and how to automate it.

What a business listing contains

Open any business on Google Maps. Most listings have:

• name and category (for example "Dental clinic");
• address and area;
• phone number;
• website;
• rating and number of reviews;
• opening hours, sometimes a booking link.

Email, Instagram or Facebook rarely appear in the listing. You find them on the website.

By hand, step by step

1. Search Google Maps. Type the niche and the city: "dentist Manchester". The map shows up to a few hundred results that load as you scroll the list.
2. Set up a spreadsheet. Columns: name, website, phone, rating, reviews, email, social profiles.
3. Go listing by listing. Open each business and copy the data into the sheet.
4. Visit the website. Find the email there.
5. Verify. Check the addresses exist before you send anything.

Each business takes two to four minutes. A hundred businesses take several hours.

Where to find the email on a website

• The footer at the bottom of every page.
• The contact page (/contact, /contact-us).
• The privacy policy: it often lists an address for data requests.
• mailto: links behind "Email us" buttons.
• About or team pages with personal addresses.

If the site only has a contact form, check the company's Instagram or Facebook: the email is often in the profile.

Which address to pick

A personal address of the owner or manager (anna@clinic.com) beats a generic one (info@, office@): the email goes straight to the person who decides. Generic addresses still work, especially at small businesses where the owner reads them.

Free addresses (@gmail.com) are fine for small companies too: often that is the owner's own inbox.

Automatically

Collecting contacts by hand makes sense for 20–30 businesses, to get a feel for the niche. After that, automate:

1. Pick the country, city and niche.
2. The tool goes through Google Maps, opens the businesses' websites and collects emails, phones and social profiles.
3. Addresses are verified, and leads get an A, B or C grade.
4. Export the list or start an email campaign right away.

That's how the Vibe Hunters Google Maps scraper works: 100 businesses in a few minutes instead of an evening.

What to do with the contacts next

• Filter. Remove businesses without a website or with addresses that don't exist.
• Start with the best. How to decide who to email first is in our article on A, B and C lead grades.
• Write personally. Email templates are in cold email templates.