Hi, @timeandmotion_c ! It looks like channelup has given you a fantastic summary of how to organize your products!
I want to jump in here and give you some resources to help you out with your product organization.
We also have some great checklists to set up your store. You can use the lists to help with what to do next and how to complete each step.
There is a feature I want to point to that can help you with your marketing campaigns. If you want to try doing product and collection releases for certain times you can use the future publishing feature for collections. This will allow you to run your marketing campaigns to gain interest in your new collection and have your store publish the collection on the drop date.
This is a good way to increase your traffic and possibly your newsletter subscribers that are anticipating the collection drop.