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This Toolkit was an excellent introduction to the NetGalley reviewing process. I wish there had been an example of a review or more tips. (I know there was a link to more information, but it would be nice to not have to go to a different place.) I appreciated the tips on how to take Instagram photos and to use Canva. I'm a new bookstagrammer, so I need all the help I can get. I think this Toolkit is an awesome start for new reviewers and people looking to refine their profile.

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I'm just getting started with NetGalley and this was the perfect resource on how I can be a great community member. I can see how this might not be the most useful resource for longstanding members but for anyone else new, you won't regret reading through this. I'm gearing up to write my first review so there couldn't have been a better time to learn -- thank you for sharing this toolkit!

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This gives you all.the how to's for every single part of being involved with NetGalley! Including all Social Media aspects, templates, Canva and how to better build your platform!

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This book is a very well designed handbook for how to get more out of NetGalley.

You’ll find everything you need to set up your NetGalley account, tips on writing reviews, and helpful hints on posting to different social media platforms.

Even though I’ve been using NetGalley a few months, I found it extremely helpful.

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This toolkit has helped me improve my reviews and is always a great reference when I feel timid or converned on posts, reviews and interacting with publishers and authors
Definitely reccomend for anyone just starting out or looking for ways to improve

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A really good intro for people new to social media and some of the acceptable ways to approach reviews.

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I didn’t realize there was a new book advocate “book”, but it was on the camp book bingo so I grabbed it and looked through it. I found it to be more directed at new users of Netgalley, I’ve been with Netgalley since 2013 so a lot of this isn’t new info for me. Too bad there wasn’t a handbook on how to not request all the books ahhaa.
Thanks Netgalley for sharing this with us.

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Netgalley can be hard to get the hang of at first, so this toolkit is very helpful for reviewers and for those of us wanting to be better book advocates.

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This was extremely helpful.. I just started a bookstagram account so I cant wait to put some of these tips to good use!

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This definitely had tips and tricks for my NetGalley profile and best practices on how to get approvals. One thing I need to work on is looking over the publisher wants.

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The advice in NetGalley's Book Advocate Toolkit is incredible. After reading this, I updated my NetGalley profile and set a reminder to keep my profile up-to-date every couple of months. I also learned something new. I love posting quotes with my reviews, but I hadn't considered that the ARC may not be accurate to the published copy. I will take all the information I learned into consideration while writing my next review. Thank you, NetGalley!

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Such great feedback and info for writing and improving reviews! This “book” covers all the basics and answers common questions!

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I am excited for this to get going! This is going to be so much fun, I think I am most excited about BINGO!

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Weird that I have to give feedback for this toolkit to not damage my profile rating, but ok. Seems fine, haven’t really used it but didn’t want to be denied a book for not reviewing a free resource for writing the reviews.

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This is a good refresher or starter guide for reviewing books online. The general advice is solid. However, I do think the advice for people starting a review social media account or blog is a bit understated. I started a Bookstagram account in April and, even though I do it for fun, it has still been difficult at times just to post consistently. And it was pretty hard to settle on a theme/color scheme and ideas for different posts (I don’t want to just post reviews).

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The Book Advocate Toolkit is very helpful and gives great tips on how to grow your social media presence. Thanks to NetGalley for putting this together for us.

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This Book Advocate Toolkit is very helpful especially for those new to Netgalley. Also very informative for old and long-time users as refresher and getting more tips and tricks to build their profile more.

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Read. thanks for the info. IDK what else to say I just don't want this throwing off my ratings anymore so this is why I am writing this review. I will go back and review and access this more later on other days. Thank you netgalley.

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Such a helpful Toolkit! Thank you so much for providing it for us to help us grow our accounts! This has really great tips for what to put in a review & the best things to post for reviews. Also loved the checklists! Helps me so much when I have visual things & checklists to make sure I get everything done so that was really helpful to have.

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Thanks NetGalley for this book full of tips to help me make the most of my membership with you. For me the illustrations are a bit ‘naive’, but I’m sure that’s just a personal preference and you know what the majority of your members like.
When I joined recently I was sent a couple of books that I’d not requested, and because I didn’t yet understand the importance of the Reviews percentage I just ignored them. It would be helpful if an explanation of this could be added to the toolkit, with tips of how to deal with it please. Trying to increase review stats is proving difficult now they’re so low, but it’s been good to read more about that on #wearebookish’. Clicking on ‘find more request tips here’ connects to #wearebookish articles which were really helpful. I’m going to learn from the articles about reviews too, which the toolkit refers to.
From the toolkit I’ve learned to check Publishers’ Approval preferences, and I’ll now try to edit my profile to enhance my chances.
Could do with a link to sign up for the monthly email, which is mentioned in the booklet but I can’t find where to do that.
Thanks again, overall a very helpful booklet for a newbie.

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