Those who know me, know I win contests from the best station in Los Angeles, 98.7. Its a very nice, mostly Alt-Rock station that has a wonderful system of rewarding its listeners. One example is its Rockaholics Rewards program. And its through this system that I’ve won so many concerts. Is it complicated.. no. But did take a bit of learning to get it maxed… yes. And so this blog, in the interest of sharing my technique. (After all I LOVE to share!) Plus once its on paper I can just pass people the link! Efficiency!!!
First off.. you really need to be listening to the station. I promise you its worth it. ALL music in the morning, no talk, and they are very supportive of local Indy bands. I tend to get irritated only a little on the flash-back lunch because I prefer newer songs. But they have a nice Facebook page (987FM) and they LISTEN when you write on the wall. (Gotta love interns!)
The next thing you have to do is go to their website. www.987fm.com. Then click on the Winning to get to the Rockaholics Annonymous page. It is there you’ll register as a Rockaholic. This step is necessary to earn the free points. Free points are what you use to enter contests. Worth it.
Once you’ve registered, here’s the best way to get the points.
Starting at the top is the “Listen & Win” sections. Four times a day they announce the name of a Rockaholic & you enter it here. The 8:50 am one is the easiest to try and understand! Cuz they repeat the name! It can be difficult to figure out the spelling but the system usually only needs the firsst name & the 1,000 points are worth it. Sometimes they’ll post it on the FB page if its REALLY unintelligible.
Once a week there are 3-5 survey questions which are easy & worth the time to answer them. You can sometimes COMPLETELY guess the demographic participating just by the percentages in each answer. But since this station is owned by a company that also owns MyFM and KIIS.. sometimes I think they may have similar questions! lol
Next up is Bonus Codes. For these you have to sign up for a little extra step. There are two weekly Bonus Codes. One is emailed to you along with the special announcements they want to inform you about. At the end of the email is the code you enter. The other Bonus Code is Rate The Rock where you’ll get an email to go the Rate The Rock site & vote for about 15 songs. Its a wonderful way to ask your station to STOP over-playing a song or play more of your current favorite. Plus the Rate The Rock is a weekly 1,000 points. 🙂
Next up is the Trivia section. This can be a bit trickier. Most of them only give you one try to get it right. And some are designed to get you to click on another area. For instance, Rock Music Video hopes you’ll check out the video the question is about. But I usually guess and I’m right about 50% of the time. The Games & Cards question lets you guess several times & there’s a link to the games if you really need to learn the answer. But most of the answers are either numbers or colors so you can repeatedly try without having to check out the actual game. Although they give you points for playing, so if you play games at other sites you might try these games cuz HERE you can use your points to win concerts.
One point about the Trivia… there is one in that category called Sleuth Trivia. To find the answer to that you need to go to the Get Points page, go to the last page of that section and start clicking on each prize. Not only do you get a chance to enter the new prizes at this point, but at the bottom of each prize might hold the Sleuth Trivia Figure. Clicking on it will get you the code word to enter in. Worth the 500 points to get to. Because often there are new prizes you want to enter for. Start on the last on on the last page, cuz its usually there! 🙂
The next points acquiring category is the Featured Links. These are extremely easy points to get and with just a click on each can earn you 10,000 points a day. 30,000 during the Christmas holidays! lol. This is where advertisers put mini commercials. I tend to click on them and while its downloading, click away and read my FB page. hee hee hee. But I’m REALLY good at multi-tasking. (Although I think I’m wearing out my left click button!)
I’d ignore most of the other ways to Get Points. But I’d make sure I was a FB friend of 98.7 because sometimes they post special contests to win.
My secret is Sex God & Eithne both registered at my encouragement, but neither of them remember to enter points NOR contests. I rolled my eyes and began to do it for them. After all … if either of them win, they’ll take me so its works out. And that way THEY get to guess all the trivia and by the time I’m guessing I know all the correct answers!
Quite often my morning comment is, “My, my Sex God is truly SUCKING at trivia today!”