Sig Ueland

Articles by: Sig Ueland

Sig Ueland

Sig Ueland is a longtime contributor to Practical Ecommerce, having written weekly ecommerce resource lists since 2011 — addressing tools, products, and services to help merchants.

He is also a seasoned freelance journalist and screenwriter.

Sig holds an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television and a B.A. in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an alumnus of The Second City Conservatory in Chicago.

Contact Sig via email or LinkedIn.

Platforms & Apps
24 Ecommerce Plugins for WordPress

June 2, 2011 • Sig Ueland

Once WordPress was just a place to blog. Then came over fourteen thousand plugins. Today WordPress is a highly customizable platform, with everything you need to run your ecommerce business. Here is a list of 24 plugins to help you run your business on WordPress. These plugins will hel...
Social Media
Facebook’s 10 Social Plugins; Benefits to Merchants

May 31, 2011 • Sig Ueland

Facebook social plugins are a quick and easy way to extend your social reach and engage your website’s visitors with social interaction. The Facebook social plugins are easily installed. On each plugin’s page — noted below — in the Facebook Developers section, the configuration tool le...
Design & Dev Tools
14 Online Task-Management Tools

May 26, 2011 • Sig Ueland

Whether you’re working on your own projects or collaborating with a team, you have to manage your productivity. With online task-management tools, you can organize tasks, collaborate in real-time, access your lists across multiple computers or mobile devices, and much more. Here is a ...
Design & Dev Tools
31 Free Tools for Brand Monitoring

May 25, 2011 • Sig Ueland

Brand monitoring is an essential task for any company. By tracking what people are saying about your brand, and how often they’re saying it, you can ensure the right message ...
Finance
19 Tools for Online Bookkeeping and Invoicing

May 20, 2011 • Sig Ueland

Keeping the books is essential to the health of any company, helping you keep track of your business. With online accounting tools, you can ensure that you won’t miss a beat. Here is a list of online bookkeeping and invoicing tools. Some are complete accounting platforms; others are sp...
Platforms & Apps
16 Live Meeting and Webinar Platforms

May 18, 2011 • Sig Ueland

With web conferencing you can reach a broad audience, whether it’s a 25-person live meeting or a 2,500-person webinar. Here is a list of live-conferencing services. Many of these distinguish between smaller meetings and larger webinars, offering services for both categories. While t...
Design & Development
10 Geolocation Apps for Business

May 13, 2011 • Sig Ueland

You need to be places. With geolocation mobile apps — which attach real-world locations to mobile phones — you now have the tools manage the location of your business wherever ...
Social Media
Top 51 Facebook Pages with Stores

May 12, 2011 • Sig Ueland

Facebook commerce is here. But what is sold on Facebook, and how it is sold, is still up in the air. Here is a list of the 51 most popular — based on the number of "Likes" — Facebook pages with stores. For the purposes of this article, a page is considered to have a “store” if there ar...
Amazon & Marketplaces
Amazon Versus States: A Sales Tax Roundup

May 4, 2011 • Sig Ueland

For years states have fought Amazon.com to force the ecommerce giant to collect sales tax — the states, desperately looking for cash, versus Amazon, vehemently defending its practices as well ...