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How to Export Paypal Buyer’s (History) Addresses in CSV for Geolocation and Augmented Reality Visualization

February 1, 2010 by  
Filed under Business Management

I FINALLY figured it out. No. It is NOT intuitive. And no. The other pdf and html pages Google pulls up won’t help. They are out-dated since Paypal’s last crazy redesign.

All I wanted to do is put all my customers on map so that I could strategize where to open a retail store, concentrate meet-ups, and even put more funding into advertising. But paypal would not spit out a csv file for excel that had my buyers’ addresses.

I would take that excel file, delete all the names, and dump only the addresses into a geolocation / gps conversion app that would convert the actual addresses into map data in KML, KMZ, or GeoRSS file format.

After days of research, I decided to just click all the links I could find. It worked.

This is how you export your Paypal Buyers’ Address into a csv file (WHEW!):

The results of my mapping are next… stay tuned! To get me involved in your marketing strategy and execution to hundreds of thousands of people world wide, contact me @journik http://sparkah.com

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