Intuit Credit Karma
Credit Karma, the online service for keeping track of your credit score, has launched a new feature: free credit monitoring. Within the first day of its existence (the option became available just yesterday), the company has managed to enroll an impressive 100,000 users for the opt-in credit monitoring service.
Credit-tracking site Credit Karma has long been a really useful service for getting your credit score for free, and now the company is offering free daily credit monitoring to notify you of any important changes to your credit.
Those intent on improving their credit score in 2012 can get some help by visiting the website Credit Karma, which is offering free credit monitoring to all Americans starting today.
Go to CreditKarma.com to see your score for free.
Credit Karma originally launched as another free credit report company, albeit one that made money from advertising rather than upsells. Now the San Francisco-based company has launched a free credit monitoring platform – a service that Experian currently values at $15 per month.
You can get credit scores for free from sites such as Credit Karma or Quizzle, or by signing up for credit monitoring.
Nationwide, the average drop is 10 percent, according to CreditKarma.com, a consumer education company.
Look at CardRatings.com or CreditKarma.com or Bankrate.com. All of those are great websites to get good information about credit cards.
Issuers will up their credit card rewards to pull users away from less profitable debit cards, says Ken Lin of CreditKarma, a credit scoring and comparison site. As consumers move out of full-recession mentality and shop more, they'll find themselves reaching for credit cards more, he says.
U.S. consumers’ average credit score was 661 in November, down from 667 in January and 676 in February 2009, according to scores in the user base of Credit Karma Inc., which also offers free scores through its website. Credit scores generally range from 300 to 850, though that may vary depending on the provider.