Your wealth can be measured in different ways, but one the most common way is the net worth. Net Worth is basically the difference between your assets and liablities. Calculating your Net Worth is fairly easy. From the simple pen and paper and  the spreadsheet to the complex software, there are many tools, which have all their advantages and drawbacks.

Among the various options available, the free Net Worth Calculator Plugin for WordPress recently released by Credit Card Finder offers interesting features for those who want to track and display their Net Worth on their blog.

The plugin can be easily installed on any WordPress blog. Directly in your blog you can enter your personal finance data about monthly assets and liabilities. The information can then be displayed in a table or a graph.

The calculator is particularly useful for doing monthly blog posts about your net worth as it can display your results directly in your blog. Using the plugin is usually faster than calculating your net worth in a spreadsheet and then using Photoshop or any other graphic software to create nice looking graphs.

Individuals – Register your premium rate telephone number with insurance companies, banks, credit card companies and all those other annoying people who call you up on the telephone and try to sell you something. You keep them on the phone as long as possible!*

For charities and communities, organize a free-ad web site or a news letter where the vendor’s telephone number is replaced by a premium rate telephone number which is linked to the vendor’s phone. This not only help to protect the identity of the vendor (who still deals with the incoming call and any transaction), but also raises valuable income for your organization.

Individually or collectively you could offer helpline facilities, host a recorded message service (for the weather, today’s horoscope, recent lottery winning numbers etc.) or simply form a community amongst yourselves where the proceeds generated from talking on the phone to each other are donated to a charity chosen between the participants of the group.

*Under current legislation, the maximum amount you can charge per minute is $5.50 with a ceiling of $38.50 per call. You will not get to keep all the $5.50 per minute for yourself, as income is shared with the service provider.

Details of premium rate services can be found by contacting companies such as www.mediatel.com, www.doatec.com or www.promotel.net or from your local service provider.

This is a guest article contributed by Melissa Tamura, who writes about online accounting degrees on the Zen College Life blog. She would love to hear from you at melissatamura@gmail.com