If you’ve been following along with our GoSadi Resources, then you’ve learned how to design beautiful patterns, write clear instructions, create professional PDFs, set strategic prices, choose your selling platforms, and develop your marketing strategy. Now it’s time to actually get your patterns listed on GoSadi.
In this guide, we’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of setting up your GoSadi Designer Landing Page, listing your patterns, and managing your pattern business all from one centralized platform. Whether you’re brand new to pattern selling or expanding from other platforms, GoSadi simplifies the process of reaching customers across multiple channels.
Sell Your Knitting Patterns on GoSadi: Step-by-Step Guide
Step 1: Create a GoSadi Account
Getting started on GoSadi is straightforward. Sign up for a GoSadi account and you’ll have access to your dashboard where you can manage all aspects of your pattern business.
Benefits of Your GoSadi Account:
Centralized Pattern Management: Update your patterns once and sync changes across multiple selling platforms instead of logging into each one separately. Learn more about connecting and importing from selling channels.
Designer Landing Pages (DLPs): Your Designer Landing Page is like your digital storefront. It links makers to all the places where they can purchase your patterns while helping them learn more about you. Our goal is to give makers choice in their shopping experience while maintaining your professional presence. Learn what a DLP is and how it works.
Community Access: Connect with fellow designers who understand the unique challenges of pattern design businesses. GoSadi designers gain access to our Discord community where designers connect, share experiences, and support each other’s growth.
Time-Saving Automation: GoSadi handles the tedious administrative work of multi-platform selling so you can focus on designing and marketing.
Get detailed setup instructions here.
Step 2: Set Up Your Designer Profile
Your Designer Profile is your professional home on GoSadi. This is where customers learn about you, your design aesthetic, and what makes your patterns special.
Choose Your Designer Name: Your designer name should be recognizable and consistent with how you brand yourself on other platforms.
Write Your Bio: Tell customers who you are and why they should try your patterns. Include your design philosophy, your experience, and what customers can expect from your patterns.
Add Your Photo: A professional but friendly photo helps customers connect with you as a real person behind the patterns.
Link Your Social Media and Website: Include links to your Instagram, blog, newsletter, or website so customers can follow your work across platforms. You can add your newsletter signup link directly to your DLP to grow your email list. Learn more about optimizing your DLP.
Step 3: List Your Knitting Patterns
Learn how to create a new product on GoSadi. You’ll enter pattern details, write compelling descriptions, and add high-quality photos that showcase your design.
Pattern Information to Include:
- Pattern name (clear and descriptive)
- Skill level
- Yarn weight and yardage
- Sizes offered
- Techniques used
Write Compelling Descriptions: Focus on what makes this pattern special, who it’s perfect for, and the benefits of the finished object. Write naturally and enthusiastically. The goal is to get makers excited about their next project.
Add High-Quality Photos: Include finished object photos from multiple angles, detail shots of stitch patterns, and lifestyle images. Learn about formatting images for your DLP.
Set Your Pricing: We covered pricing strategy extensively in our GoSadi Resources. Apply those principles when listing on GoSadi, remembering that pricing should account for fees on the platforms where customers complete their purchases.
Add Selling Channel Links: This is where GoSadi shines. Link to all the places customers can buy your pattern:
- Ravelry listing
- Etsy shop
- Your website
- With more platforms coming soon!
When customers visit your Designer Landing Page, they see all of the buying options you offer and can choose their preferred checkout experience for themselves.
Choose Relevant Categories and Tags: Proper categorization helps customers find your patterns and helps with SEO. Learn more about categories and optimize your pattern pages so makers find them easier.
Step 4: Promote Your Knitting Patterns
Once your patterns are listed on GoSadi, it’s time to drive traffic to your Designer Landing Pages.
Share Your Designer Landing Pages: When you post about a new pattern release on social media, link to your GoSadi DLP. This gives your followers choice in where they purchase while keeping your marketing clean and simple.
Use Social Media Strategically: Share finished object photos, work-in-progress (WIP) shots, and behind-the-scenes content that drives people to your GoSadi profile.
Leverage Email Marketing: Announce new patterns with links to your GoSadi DLPs in your newsletter. Remember, you can link to your newsletter signup directly on your DLP to grow your subscriber base.
Read our guide on Beyond Followers: Building Community as a Knit or Crochet Designer for more insights.
Step 5: Manage Your Pattern Business
Customer Purchases: When a customer clicks through to purchase from your Designer Landing Page, they’re directed to whichever platform they chose. The transaction happens on that platform according to their usual processes.
GoSadi doesn’t process transactions; it makes pattern discovery and multi-platform management effortless.
Update Pattern Information: When you need to update a pattern description, fix a typo, change pricing, or add new photos, update it once in GoSadi and sync those changes across all your linked platforms. No more logging into four different sites to make the same edit four times.
Learn more about GoSadi’s features
Simplify Your Pattern Selling with the GoSadi Platform
GoSadi transforms how you manage your pattern business by centralizing the administrative work while expanding your reach.
Key Benefits:
- Save Time: Update once, sync everywhere
- Expand Your Reach: Meet customers where they prefer to shop
- Maintain Professionalism: Designer Landing Pages create a polished, unified presence
- Focus on Design: Spend less time on administrative tasks and more time creating
- Join a Community: Connect with fellow designers who understand your challenges
GoSadi isn’t another marketplace competing for your attention. It’s a platform that makes selling through multiple marketplaces sustainable and manageable.
Ready to Join?
Ready to sell your knitting patterns smarter, not harder? GoSadi is here to help you build the pattern business you’ve always wanted.
GoSadi is inviting designers to join and help shape the platform’s future. Join GoSadi and experience a better way to manage your pattern business.
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