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Austin is an absolutely thriving place
for small business. And for locally owned businesses.
We have more locally owned businesses per capita
than any other city our size in the nation.
I'm Marsha Lane, the owner of
Ragalicious and Flashback in Austin, Texas.
Everybody in Austin it seems like
is a potential entrepreneur.
I moved here in 1982. I thought I had a job.
It fell through, so I started my own business then.
Well Tom made a cash box out of a shoe box.
I didn't want to throw the money in a drawer.
But I just cut a shoebox and made it dividers
and put in the cash and the change. [laughs]
Today we installed PayPal Here.
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
is that PayPal didn't come in and say,
"Here's what we want you to buy."
They've come in to say,
"How can we help you?"
"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
using the new cash for registers program
and especially because we get free processing
for 6 whole months and that is huge.
I used PayPal Here for the first time this morning
and I really like that it's really user friendly, self-explanatory
I think customers will appreciate that
it won't take me as long to add up their total.
You just put in the amount; it figures the sales tax for you
and everything goes into the bank account daily.
One of the important things for a local business
is to get as many customers as they can and
make it easy for those customers to come do business with them.
Being able to use PayPal in a retail situation like that
just gives them one more option.
Everything's very exciting; I'm really looking forward to it.
I so appreciate especially the support PayPal is giving us.
I would definitely recommend PayPal to other small businesses.
Thanks to PayPal I found a better use for my shoe box.
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