{"id":2550,"date":"2011-10-10T08:50:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:52:48","slug":"how-to-win-as-a-rockaholic-on-98-7-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2550","title":{"rendered":"How to win as a RockaHolic on 98.7 (Part One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who know me, know I win contests from the best station in Los Angeles, 98.7.\u00a0 Its a very nice, mostly Alt-Rock station that has a wonderful system of rewarding its listeners.\u00a0 One example is its Rockaholics Rewards program.\u00a0\u00a0 And its through this system that I’ve won so many concerts.\u00a0 Is it complicated.. no.\u00a0 But did take a bit of learning to get it maxed… yes. \u00a0 And so this blog, in the interest of sharing my technique.\u00a0 (After all I LOVE to share!)\u00a0 Plus once its on paper I can just pass people the link!\u00a0 Efficiency!!!<\/p>\n

First off.. you really need to be listening to the station.\u00a0 I promise you its worth it.\u00a0 ALL music in the morning, no talk, and they are very supportive of local Indy bands.\u00a0 I tend to get irritated only a little on the flash-back lunch because I prefer newer songs.\u00a0 But they have a nice Facebook page (987FM) and they LISTEN when you write on the wall.\u00a0 (Gotta love interns!)<\/p>\n

The next thing you have to do is go to their website.\u00a0\u00a0 www.987fm.com.\u00a0 Then click on the Winning to get to the Rockaholics Annonymous page.\u00a0 It is there you’ll register as a Rockaholic.\u00a0 This step is necessary to earn the\u00a0 free points.\u00a0 Free points are what you use to enter contests.\u00a0 Worth it.<\/p>\n

Once you’ve registered, here’s the best way to get the points.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Starting at the top\u00a0 is the “Listen & Win” sections.\u00a0 Four times a day they announce the name of a Rockaholic & you enter it here.\u00a0 The 8:50 am one is the easiest to try and understand!\u00a0 Cuz they repeat the name!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Sometimes they’ll post it on the FB page if its REALLY unintelligible.<\/p>\n

Once a week there are 3-5 survey questions which are easy & worth the time to answer them.\u00a0 You can sometimes COMPLETELY guess the demographic participating just by the percentages in each answer.\u00a0 But since this station is owned by a company that also owns MyFM and KIIS.. sometimes I think they may have similar questions! lol<\/p>\n

Next up is Bonus Codes.\u00a0\u00a0 For these you have to sign up for a little extra step.\u00a0 There are two weekly Bonus Codes.\u00a0 One is emailed to you along with the special announcements they want to inform you about.\u00a0 At the end of the email is the code you enter.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Its a wonderful way to ask your station to STOP over-playing a song or play more of your current favorite.\u00a0 Plus the Rate The Rock is a weekly 1,000 points.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Next up is the Trivia section.\u00a0\u00a0 This can be a bit trickier.\u00a0 Most of them only give you one try to get it right.\u00a0 And some are designed to get you to click on another area.\u00a0 For instance, Rock Music Video hopes you’ll check out the video the question is about.\u00a0 But I usually guess and I’m right about 50% of the time.\u00a0 The Games & Cards question lets you guess several times & there’s a link to the games if you really need to learn the answer.\u00a0 But most of the answers are either numbers or colors so you can repeatedly try without having to check out the actual game.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

One point about the Trivia… there is one in that category called Sleuth Trivia.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Clicking on it will get you the code word to enter in.\u00a0 Worth the 500 points to get to.\u00a0 Because often there are new prizes you want to enter for.\u00a0 Start on the last on\u00a0 on the last page, cuz its usually there! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The next points acquiring category is the Featured Links.\u00a0 These are extremely easy points to get and with just a click on each can earn you 10,000 points a day.\u00a0 30,000 during the Christmas holidays! lol.\u00a0 This is where advertisers put mini commercials.\u00a0 I tend to click on them and while its downloading, click away and read my FB page.\u00a0 hee hee hee.\u00a0\u00a0 But I’m REALLY good at multi-tasking.\u00a0 (Although I think I’m wearing out my left click button!)<\/p>\n

I’d ignore most of the other ways to Get Points.\u00a0 But I’d make sure I was a FB friend of 98.7 because sometimes they post special contests to win.<\/p>\n

My secret is Sex God & Eithne both registered at my encouragement, but neither of them remember to enter points NOR contests.\u00a0 I rolled my eyes and began to do it for them.\u00a0 After all … if either of them win, they’ll take me so its works out.\u00a0 And that way THEY get to guess all the trivia and by the time I’m guessing I know all the correct answers!<\/p>\n

Quite often my morning comment is, “My, my Sex God is truly SUCKING at trivia today!”<\/p>\n

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Those who know me, know I win contests from the best station in Los Angeles, 98.7.\u00a0 Its a very nice, mostly Alt-Rock station that has a wonderful system of rewarding its listeners.\u00a0 One example is its Rockaholics Rewards program.\u00a0\u00a0 And … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narcissist-secrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}