How does one become a reviewer?

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On Boots and Amazon and big sites you know you see reviews with - part of a promotion/ I was given this in exchange for an honest review etc- how do people start doing that?

Sign up to sites like Bzz Agent, they send you products to review, i think you also need to fill in some surveys.

Ignore that actually, it used to be a thing in the UK but now I can't seem to find it, only seems to be US now Sorry!

Start writing reviews, use photos etc if you can on the sites you want to be a reviewer for. Once you start getting "helpful" or "likes" for your reviews you might get asked to review things.

Another way in is to vlog or blog about what interests you and then companies might contact you or you can contact them and point out your site's visibility.

What sort of products do you wnat to get for review? Fore xample for books:
Netgalley is a good site if you want to review Advanced Reader copy books (they send copies to kindle or download onto PC etc) you request to become a reviewer and then need to point out that you review books and recommend them on social media or have a blog, decent amazon or goodreads reviews/feedback.

I've just looked it up and seems to be going still. Thanks for replying,I will investigate further ☺️

I've done some with Mattel, bzzagent, the insiders, Mumsnet and netmums