Carl Stearns is principal consultant at Civic Mind Media, a digitally integrated full-service marketing firm.He has helped A/E professionals, small businesses, consultants, flight schools, doctors, government agencies, manufacturers, and experts embrace online technology to directly increase lead generation and sales of their products and services while shortening sales cycles. His past and current clients include Intuit, Empire Airlines, KBC Networks, National Event Marketing, GutterBrush, J-U-B Engineers, Latitude Aviation and Ultimate Board Prep as well as hundreds of small businesses, top producing realtors, government agencies, expert authors, and consultants throughout the United States. Carl’s services include direct response marketing, market planning, online advertising including pay per click, web application development, mobile marketing, video marketing, social media, online training & course development, public participation, and search engine optimization. Carl has a near-religious commitment to upgrading his skills and knowledge and participates in national forums and continued education among the industry’s leading minds including Mike Koenigs, Paul Colligan, Ed Rush, Rich Harshaw, Dan Kennedy, and Robert Middleton. This continued education and mastermind access directly benefits Carl’s clients ensuring he is at the forefront of what works & what doesn’t in an industry that changes daily.Carl and his firm have created well over 500 web sites, software applications & online training courses. His most recent success was to assist two retired veterinarians to transform their in-person classroom-based training business into an online delivered program helping hundreds of more students and increasing total annual revenue by more than 500%. Originally from Massachusetts, Carl and his family live in the resort town of Coeur d’Alene, ID. He loves boating & wake boarding on the many lakes of the Northwest and flying bush planes to remote airstrips throughout the Northwest.