Hunter offers three email integrations, you can connect to send single emails or create an email sequence directly in Hunter Sequences.
To start sending emails with Hunter, simply connect your Gmail or Outlook account (or their professional equivalents, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 Business). Starting with our lowest-paid plan, you can also connect your professional emails using SMTP/IMAP.
How to send a single email with Hunter?
Once your email accounts are connected to Sequences, you can start sending individual emails or email sequences.
The single emailing feature is available in the Leads section. There are two ways to contact your leads from there:
From a single lead's contact window:
Click on the lead's name to open up the detailed view.
The leads contact window will pop up. Click "Send an email" to contact the lead directly.
From the three dots on the far right of the leads table:
Scroll to the right end of the Leads table
Click on the three dots and select "Send an email"
A pop-up email window will appear. You can now type the email you want to send, or create a template to reuse with other contacts.
How to send an email sequence from Leads?
To send an email to an entire list of leads, start by selecting all of the leads you wish to conatct.
On the blue action bar, click on "Add to a sequence" to add the leads to an existing email sequence or click on the three dots and choose Create a new sequence to create a new email sequence.
👉 For a comprehensive guide, refer to the dedicated Sequences tutorial.
How to add templates?
In your saved templates, which you can find in the Templates section, you can set different customized attributes such as First Name, Last Name, Full Name, Email, Position, Company and Website.
Attributes are automatically filled when sending the email based on the contact’s information saved in Hunter. In case some of your contacts are missing some attributes, make sure to add fallbacks.
You can also add custom attributes if the attribute you want is not in the list.
You can easily select a template when you compose a new email in the Content section of your email sequence, as shown in the screenshot below:
💡Note: When using the Gmail integration, your Gmail signature will always be appended at the end of the message.
How to track and monitor your emails?
All the emails sent with Hunter are automatically tracked to provide real-time statistics on the openings and replies of your emails. While on any paid plan, you can also track the link clicks.
To review an email's status, navigate to the Leads page and open the lead contact window. Hunter will display all the activity related to that lead.
Tracking events are also displayed in the Sending Status column in the Leads section.
💡Note: If the sending status column isn't visible, you can change which columns are displayed, using the + icon at the top right of your Leads table.
You can also set filters to find leads with a specific Sending status.
