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Rachel discusses the importance of clean data in Shopify for making informed business decisions in the apparel industry.

EP 158 - Your Shopify Data Might Be Lying To You What if your Shopify reports are lying to you? In this episode of The Business of Apparel Podcast, Rachel explains one of the most overlooked problems in e-commerce: bad data structure. If your product naming, SKUs, and systems aren't standardized, your reports can mislead you, causing poor product decisions, wasted marketing dollars, and stalled growth. Rachel breaks down how inaccurate reporting happens, why clean Shopify data is critical for scaling, and how to identify the products actually driving unit sales, revenue, and profit inside your apparel brand. If you want to grow your brand strategically instead of guessing your way forward, this episode will change how you look at your backend systems forever. Sign up for the Secrets Behind Billion Dollar Apparel Brands Masterclass here: https://www.thebusinessofapparel.com/secrets Join The Board here: https://www.thebusinessofapparel.com Key Moments: 00:00 Data That Lies 00:31 Shopify Workshop Recap 01:38 Standardize Your Product Data 02:37 Reading Reports That Matter 04:09 Find Winners And MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) 05:01 Join The Board! 06:21 Scale Winners With UGC (User…

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Host: Rachel Erickson

Topics covered

• e-commerce
• data structure
• Shopify
• apparel brand growth
• reporting accuracy

Keywords

• Shopify data
• e-commerce reporting
• product decisions
• data accuracy
• apparel brand

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Shopify, The Business of Apparel

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