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Discovery Questions That Resonate with Heads of E-commerce in D2C Fashion

Summary:

For Heads of E-commerce in the D2C fashion and apparel space, success is measured by more than just sales, it’s about delivering fast, personalized, and delightful shopping experiences at scale. These leaders are under constant pressure to drive conversions, optimize operations, reduce customer churn, and keep up with ever-evolving consumer expectations, all while juggling omnichannel complexity, high SKU volumes, and margin pressures.

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Your discovery questions should uncover operational friction points across the entire digital commerce value chain from conversion drops and fulfillment gaps to automation blind spots. This allows you to position your E-commerce Automation platform as the key to scaling operations, enhancing CX, and enabling lean growth.

Here’s a set of 30 tailored discovery questions to guide insight-rich, high-impact conversations.

1. Conversion Optimization & Customer Experience

  1. What are the biggest drop-off points in your customer journey today?
  2. How do you currently personalize the shopping experience across channels?
  3. What’s your current cart abandonment rate, and what’s being done to reduce it?
  4. Are product recommendations automated or manually configured?
  5. How do you ensure consistency in UX across mobile and desktop?

2. Omnichannel Strategy & Automation

  1. How seamless is your integration across marketplaces, brand website, and social commerce?
  2. Are you automating inventory syncing across online and offline channels?
  3. How do you manage product listings across multiple D2C platforms?
  4. What tools or systems are you using to automate promotions and offers?
  5. Are you able to run targeted campaigns across all channels from a single platform?

3. Order Management & Fulfillment Efficiency

  1. What’s your average order-to-ship time, and where are the bottlenecks?
  2. Are order management processes fully automated or partially manual?
  3. How do you handle high-volume sales events (like drops or seasonal sales)?
  4. Is your returns and exchange process automated and customer-friendly?
  5. How do you ensure timely fulfillment without overstocking?

4. Customer Retention & Loyalty

  1. What’s your repeat customer rate and how are you trying to improve it?
  2. Are loyalty programs or retention campaigns automated or manual?
  3. How are you leveraging data to re-engage past purchasers?
  4. How quickly do you respond to customer service queries across channels?
  5. What’s your NPS or customer satisfaction score, and where do you see improvement opportunities?

5. Data, Analytics & Insights

  1. Are you getting actionable insights into which SKUs or categories drive the most margin?
  2. How frequently do you use analytics to guide pricing, bundling, or upselling?
  3. Is your reporting real-time and accessible to key stakeholders?
  4. What’s your biggest data blind spot in terms of customer behavior or operations?
  5. How do you track ROI from influencer or affiliate-driven campaigns?

6. Scalability, Costs & Strategic Focus

  1. What’s preventing you from scaling faster—tech limitations, team bandwidth, or something else?
  2. Are rising acquisition costs forcing you to rethink automation or CX strategies?
  3. What areas of your e-commerce operations are most resource-intensive right now?
  4. If you could automate one end-to-end workflow tomorrow, what would it be?
  5. What internal alignment challenges do you face between marketing, merchandising, and tech teams?

How Pepsales AI Helps

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Pepsales AI equips your sales teams to ask smarter, faster, and more relevant questions when engaging with modern e-commerce leaders. It delivers real-time, persona-aligned discovery flows that reflect the priorities of fashion and apparel brands—speed, scale, personalization, and retention.

Pepsales AI delivers:

  • A tailored discovery library based on role, industry, and tech stack
  • Smart prompts that adjust to channel mix, growth blockers, and tech maturity
  • Sales coaching to handle objections around automation, complexity, and ROI
  • Discovery automation, helping reps go deeper, faster without sounding scripted

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