We covered the web app last October when they launched, and I’ve found it useful for remembering to get in touch with certain contacts every now and then. After logging into the service with your LinkedIn credentials, Five Hundred Plus splits the screen into columns, giving you a searchable list of your contacts. Once there, you can drag and drop people into the weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly columns to signify how often you want to be reminded to contact certain people.
After that, you get a Monday morning email reminding you to shoot out some emails. It’s a super simple concept, and it makes LinkedIn actually useful to me, rather than it being a big list of people I handed my business card to once. New users get 25 contacts to manage for free, while existing users still get 6 months before they start monetizing by charging $14.99 a month for the service, which is probably a reasonable investment for the marketing professionals, small business owners, and management consultants it’s targeting.
“We built Five Hundred Plus for ourselves, because the majority of our business comes from our network of professional acquaintances,” says co-founder Geir Freysson. “We’re extremely pleased that it turns out there are more people out there in a need of a super simple CRM solution to generate leads from their professional network”.