Question : Problem with DISTINCT COUNT query

I am trying to count all the "New Consumer" that have been contacted within a time frame.  The query below seems to count the amount of contacts for New Consumers within a time frame.  For example, for the month of October, I know that I have contacted 9 new consumer, but the query results gives me 18 because that's the number of New Consumer contacts/calls made within that same month.  What am I missing in my query?

SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(c.consumerid) AS [New Consumers]
FROM c_calls AS c LEFT JOIN c_contacts AS a ON a.consumer_id=c.consumerid
WHERE a.c_status = 1 and c.c_calldate Between Forms!frmStartEndDate!StartDate And Forms!frmStartEndDate!EndDate;

Tip: a.c_status = 1 is New Consumers
Tip 2: I have already tried switching DISTINCT COUNT(a.consumer_id) -- still got the same results

Thanks in advance for your help

Answer : Problem with DISTINCT COUNT query

And of course - based largely on the question title...
If it's an actual count of the distinct customers you want (supported also by Angel's supposition when he suggested the T-SQL syntax COUNT(DISTINCT c.consumerid)

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM
(
  SELECT DISTINCT c.consumerid  AS [New Consumers]
  FROM c_calls AS c LEFT JOIN c_contacts AS a ON a.consumer_id=c.consumerid
  WHERE a.c_status = 1 and c.c_calldate Between Forms!frmStartEndDate!StartDate And Forms!frmStartEndDate!EndDate
)

Ray - I'm not sure what you're saying re the Selecting and On Clauses.
The order in the On clause itself shouldn't matter... just the directionality of the Join if Outer.