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.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: January 16, 2025
January 16, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes tools for cross-border selling, online advertising, generative AI, post-purchase journeys, and B2B and B2C platforms.
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Typography & Fonts
20 Free Commercial Fonts for 2025
January 13, 2025 • Sig Ueland
A new font is an easy and inexpensive way to enliven your website and capture visitors' attention.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: January 9, 2025
January 9, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This installment includes updates on marketplaces, supply chain platforms, shipping, returns, cross-border payments, and AI-generated product videos.
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Platforms & Apps
AI Apps to Get Things Done in 2025
January 7, 2025 • Sig Ueland
Today's AI-driven project management and productivity platforms automate tasks, schedules, and workflows.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: January 2, 2025
January 2, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This first 2025 installment of our weekly rundown includes updates on payment platforms, shopping assistants, advertising insights, AI chatbots, mobile services, and parcel delivery.
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Design & Dev Tools
New Web Design Tools, December 2024
December 30, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Discover free and paid video generators, page builders, image editors, tools to train AI agents, and a selection of commercial fonts.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: December 26, 2024
December 26, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes updates on return solutions, pay-over-time services, cross-border sales, promotions, AI tools, and virtual try-ons.
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Marketing & Advertising
Outstanding Marketing Campaigns from 2024
December 23, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This year's outstanding campaigns feature collaborations, dupes, celebrity spots, mobile apps, mascots, dance routines, pop-ups, and AI-powered videos.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: December 19, 2024
December 19, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes updates on returns, payment financing, AI-powered assistants, social commerce, shipping, and security tools.
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Platforms & Apps
Top Online Form Builders, Compared
December 16, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Features, costs and capabilities of software for contacts, surveys, payments, registrations, data, and much more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: December 12, 2024
December 12, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes tools for generative AI, virtual commerce, product image tools, customer experience platforms, blockchain payment solutions, and drone deliveries.
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Social Media
TikTok Expands Shop Tools as Ban Looms
December 10, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Despite political difficulties, TikTok's ecommerce efforts in the last year have been impressive.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: December 5, 2024
December 5, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes updates on virtual stores, tax management, cross-border commerce, circular packaging, sponsored products, product images, and more.
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Social Media
X Alternatives Compared, for Marketing
December 2, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Will marketers and brands seek alternatives to publish real-time news and engage with followers?
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: November 28, 2024
November 28, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Our rundown this week includes updates on ecommerce platforms, marketplaces, search engines, APIs, reverse logistics, and local delivery.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: November 21, 2024
November 21, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New merchant tools this week include local search marketing, video generators, AI-powered shopping assistants, email marketing tools, conversational commerce, online review tools, and influencer marketing.
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Marketing & Advertising
Holiday 2024 Marketing Campaigns from Top Brands
November 19, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This year's holiday marketing sees major brands mixing old-school ads with apps, social feeds, and AI-driven content.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: November 14, 2024
November 14, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes new tools for holiday marketing campaigns, drone deliveries, analytics, search, video generators, and AI-based platforms.
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Design & Dev Tools
New Web Design Tools, November 2024
November 12, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This month's rundown includes new video editors, page builders, whiteboards, drawing tools, testing platforms, and a selection of new fonts.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: November 7, 2024
November 7, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: new tools for website builders, SMS marketing, AI-powered shopping assistants, reverse logistics, social commerce, and cross-border transactions.
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Platforms & Apps
Top AI Search Engine Features, Compared
November 4, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Prominent and not-so prominent-providers are remaking search with advanced tools, large language models, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 31, 2024
October 31, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: ecommerce storefronts, buy-now pay-later, AI-powered assistants, fraud prevention, search engine optimization, logistics, and seller ratings.
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Platforms & Apps
Top WooCommerce Extensions to Grow a Store
October 29, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Our handpicked list of 20 tools will drive traffic, streamline operations, and grow revenue.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 24, 2024
October 24, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes tools for generative AI ads, digital marketing, local search, product returns, cross-border shipping, and holiday marketing campaigns.
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Platforms & Apps
Merchants’ Guide to Metaverse Platforms
October 21, 2024 • Sig Ueland
For brands and merchants, metaverse platforms are worth following as opportunities in the new economies unfold.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 17, 2024
October 17, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New releases this week include tools for AI-powered shopping assistants, video creation, search engines, payment platforms, financing, and user-generated content.
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Platforms & Apps
New AI Apps Reinvent Ecommerce Video
October 14, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Generate video from text, edit short clips from a single long-form source, produce product videos from static images, and more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 10, 2024
October 10, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes tools for visual search, AI, payments, shipping, warehouse management, and automated marketing campaigns.
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Platforms & Apps
13 New AI Productivity Tools for SMBs
October 7, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New tools for email marketing, audience research, project and team management, AI assistants, voice-powered dictation, and video production.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: October 3, 2024
October 3, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: new tools for search ad campaigns, financing, collecting reviews, supply-chain management, and cross-border shipping.
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