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LeapFrog Solutions Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Humble beginning yields two decades of innovation, growth and customer service

LeapFrog Solutions has reached an exciting milestone. The company is celebrating 20 years producing award-winning promotional, recruitment and educational outreach campaigns for federal, state and local governments as well as Washington area businesses.

President and CEO Lisa Martin started the Fairfax-based company in 1996 working out of her home and a dream of building a marketing communications firm on her own terms. She gave herself two years to see if the business was viable. It was - the company has grown into an $8 million-dollar firm with 37 employees. Martin's approach is to help clients integrate traditional marketing methods with emerging technologies in order to make your message matter. …show more content…

“While I was working with about 10 contractors who worked out of their homes, I also had two employees working out of my house, which violated my county’s regulations as you were only allowed to have one employee. A neighbor reported me to the county and I was given 30 days to move the business. I received an extension for 45 more days, hired five more employees, and then we all moved into our first office space together. That was three offices ago. I look at every challenge as an opportunity to grow and just make it work. Believe me, if I didn’t have that outlook on life, I wouldn’t be in business today!”

Under Martin's leadership, LeapFrog Solutions has been recognized as one of the top U.S. agency brands by Advertising Age and continues to be recognized as one of the top 10 graphic design firms by the Washington Business

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