What's Your Net Worth? Click Your Way to Wealth - Hardcover

Openshaw, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0738204439 ISBN 13: 9780738204437

Publisher: Basic Books, 2001

Synopsis

Women are using the Internet more than ever-and more than men-to shop, chat, and, of course, to manage their finances. As founder and CEO of the pioneering Women's Financial Network (WFN), Jennifer Openshaw has made it her mission to provide women with all of the advice and access they need to achieve financial security.Much more than a catalog of sites, What's Your 'Net Worth is chock-full of tools to help women seize the opportunities that are available on the Internet, from IPOs and investment clubs to business financing, mortgages, retirement planning, on-line banking, and much more. It is packed with female-friendly advice and practical tips on money management that will guide women toward financial prosperity.

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Review:

Online investing may get the lion's share of attention, but Jennifer Openshaw says the Internet really is the perfect vehicle for managing all personal finance information--especially for women, whose fiscal requirements often are ignored by traditional guides to money management. In What's Your Net Worth?, Openshaw, founder of the Women's Financial Network and a frequent financial TV commentator, describes a complete 12-step wealth-building program that combines sound advice concerning women's precise needs with Web sites that should be helpful in addressing them. It boils down to mixing time-honored (albeit gender-specific) techniques with today's technology to develop a three-part game plan Openshaw calls "Earn It, Save It, and Grow It!" Toward the second goal, for example, she describes various ways that expenses might be trimmed to increase savings, "not only by using online budgeting tools to get a handle on your spending but also by devising an online strategy to spend less on the things you still need to buy." Other individual actions focus on eliminating debt and building credit, protecting assets, minimizing taxes, increasing earnings, and giving back through charitable contributions. --Howard Rothman

About the Author:

Jennifer Openshaw is founder and CEO of Women's Financial Network, the first online financial services firm created to address the needs of women. She is also a financial commentator for Lifetime Television and is the "Women & Money" columnist for "CBS MarketWatch." She has appeared on numerous television shows including CNBC's "Power Lunch," "ABC World News This Morning," and CNN's "In the Money." Openshaw was recently named by Internet World magazine as one of the Net's Top-25 Rising Stars.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0738204439
• ISBN 13: 9780738204437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224