Why Geolocate Your Paypal Customers? For Retail and Seminars!

You gotta be kidding me. Is there no way to run a geolocation report of all the customers who’ve bought from my website?

I spent one hour waiting for paypal to generate a online report of all my sales for the last few years. It would be well worth it I thought. Afterall, with thousands of sales, I would be able to create a powerfully telling geovisualization of my customer base. Using this map of customer concentration, I could launch any or all of the following:

1. meet-ups

2. seminars

3. retail sales locations

4. shipping centers

5. branch offices…

You can see how any of the above five initiatives based on sales data of existing customers would launch me into the next phase of my business growth. I imagined color coding my geopoint from red to grey with red being the hottest latest buyer and grey being the oldest buyer from January of ’08. I visualized a world wide map of the family of my customers with larger geopoints corresponding to larger orders. 

I salivated at the idea that I could launch meetups where larger volumes of sales were coming from and retail stores where higher sales tickets were being generated. 

But no. When I exported my paypal history, it came with no addresses. Do you know a way to get my buyers addresses out of paypal?

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