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Conduct tons of Emails everyday from people outside our familiar group of contacts is quite overwhelming. Many more times you would need to scourge the internet for the profile of the unknown person and was making Emails more ineffective, to what they already were. For power clients of Gmail, mindful of this situation, many of them got familiar to a social CRM widget that went by the name \u2018Rapportive\u2019.<\/p>\n[ad type=”square”]\n

What is (or rather was) Rapportive?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Rapportive was one great social CRM tool for Gmail that did the \u2018background check\u2019<\/strong> of people for you and accessible their profiles at different networks as a sidebar widget on Gmail.<\/p>\n

In every useful startup, Rapportive was acquired by LinkedIn back in 2012 and after a major revamping in 2014, it isn\u2019t the way it used to be. Rapportive still does provide browser add-ons and Gmail extensions, but as TechCrunch best said it, Rapportive is \u2018Really Messed up right now!\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

How has it changed from what it was?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Many things changed since its restoring in 2014 by LinkedIn. As with every major Tech acquisition, LinkedIn had to make this tool more aligned to its mission as compared to providing value to the end user. It discontinued two of its features, \u2018Raplets\u2019 (which was the best part of Rapportive) and \u2018Notes\u2019. Raplets were opt-in widgets that allowed users to add more details to the tool that pulled user information from different sources like GitHub, Klout, Quora, Tumblr and more, in addition to their Twitter and Facebook profiles. Raplets was the key feature pulling all the strings for Rapportive and LinkedIn discontinued it.<\/p>\n

Rapportive isn\u2019t any more the data aggregation powerhouse that it used. But it is still being actively deployed, it has lost a lot of functionality on the way through, that comes to the point of the best alternatives to this tool.<\/p>\n

7 Best Rapportive Alternatives<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

The best thing about the Tech disruption right now is that you wouldn\u2019t have to lose your mind when some of your favorite tools get discontinued.<\/p>\n

1. FullContact for Gmail<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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FullContact for Gmail is one of the best Chrome extensions that would make your Emails more powerful and productive. This plugin for Google Chrome allows you to discover the social profiles of a contact right from your Gmail Inbox. The plugin lets you connect deeper with your contacts, allowing you to browse their images, Facebook posts, Twitter feed; all without leaving your Inbox!<\/p>\n

On a personal level, I\u2019ve found this tool to be extremely powerful and a true replica of Rapportive\u2019s abilities. It also includes a \u2018Notes\u2019 section to add user-specific information and also features the ability to sync contacts across mobile devices using Google contacts. If a person representing an organization is contacting you, this plugin also aggregates information about the company and will let you know key details like company size, location and demographics.<\/p>\n

This plugin is pretty popular in the Chrome Store and must be of great interest to you if you are looking for the best Rapportive alternative.<\/p>\n

Factors to consider:<\/strong><\/p>\n