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Austin is an <b>absolutely</b> thriving place

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for small business. And for <u>locally owned</u> businesses.

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We have <i>more locally owned businesses</i> per capita

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than any other city our size in the nation.

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I'm Marsha Lane, the owner of 

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Ragalicious and Flashback in Austin, Texas.

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Everybody in Austin it seems like

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is a potential entrepreneur.

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I moved here in 1982. I thought I had a job. 

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It fell through, so I started my own business then.

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Well Tom made a cash box out of a shoe box.

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I didn't want to throw the money in a drawer.

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But I just cut a shoebox and made it dividers

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and put in the cash and the change. [laughs]

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Today we installed PayPal Here.

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And we're really looking forward to using it in the future.

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One of the things that excites me the most

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is that PayPal didn't come in and say,

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"Here's what we want you to buy."

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They've come in to say,

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"How can we help you?"

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"How can we be a partner to you as a local business?"

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I'm really pleased to be one of the first people in Austin

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using the new cash for registers program

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and especially because we get free processing

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for 6 whole months and that is huge.

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I used PayPal Here for the first time this morning

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and I really like that it's really user friendly, self-explanatory

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I think customers will appreciate that 

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it won't take me as long to add up their total.

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You just put in the amount; it figures the sales tax for you

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and everything goes into the bank account daily.

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One of the important things for a local business

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is to get as many customers as they can and

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make it easy for those customers to come do business with them.

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Being able to use PayPal in a retail situation like that

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just gives them one more option.

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Everything's very exciting; I'm really looking forward to it.

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I so appreciate especially the support PayPal is giving us.

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I would definitely recommend PayPal to other small businesses.

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Thanks to PayPal I found a better use for my shoe box.

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