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> Tracing route: history → you

How did you end up here?

Every invention leads to another, usually by accident and rarely on purpose. Let’s nip back and check, one link at a time.

Error 404 · Connection not found

Oops. A broken connection.

Twelve centuries of progress, and the chain snaps one link short of you. Most inconvenient. Please stand by; an engineer has been summoned.

Status 200 · Connection restored

Fixing broken connections is what I do.

Lenders, lead gens, platforms, partners and the people in between. When one part of a consumer or online lending operation stops talking to the rest, I find the break and get the whole chain moving again.

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Send an inquiry or email john@jbdalton.com
or ring (954) 906-0854Call or textCallText (it goes to the )

This page is still being wired up. Mind the cables.

Animation is off on your device, so here’s the short version: it broke, I fixed it.

A chain of connections, from the stirrup to this page

  1. 8th century

    The stirrup

    Riders stop falling off horses. Armored knights become practical, if ruinously expensive to kit out. Somebody, somewhere, offers terms.

  2. Meanwhile, in 1440

    The printing press

    Copying gets cheap. Forms get printed by the thousand. Humanity begins its long and frankly unhealthy relationship with paperwork.

  3. 1876

    The telephone

    “Mr. Watson, come here.” Watson came. Outbound contact rates have never been that good since.

  4. 1950

    The charge card

    Legend has it a man forgot his wallet at dinner. Rather than do the washing up, he helped invent “pay later.” It caught on.

  5. 1969

    The first network message

    Two computers try to send “LOGIN.” The system crashes after “LO.” The internet’s first word is a dropped connection. Foreshadowing.

  6. Late 1990s

    The online application

    Clipboards become web forms. The Submit button is born, and with it, the nervous second click.

  7. 2000s

    The ping tree

    Leads cascade down the ping tree in milliseconds, a marvel of modern plumbing. Then one sluggish buyer up top clogs the pipe, and your conversion rate goes tumbling over the falls.

  8. ERROR 404

    Connection not found.

    This link appears to be broken. Please do not adjust your set.

      STATUS 200

      Connection restored.

      Repaired by
      John
      Downtime
      ~3 seconds
      Parts used
      1 connection
      Paradoxes
      None known

    1. Today

      You, here.

      And that is how you ended up at Dalton Consulting.

    Page under construction.

    Until then, the fastest connection is the direct one. Tell me what’s going on with your lending operation, your traffic, your platform or your partners, and I’ll tell you what I’d do about it. Usually on the first call.

    Send an inquiry john@jbdalton.com

    Ring (954) 906-0854Call or textCallText. You’ll get the ; the machine gets me.

    “The right person in the right room is worth a year of guessing.”

    John