When Lisa Martin got the chance to land one of the biggest and most formidable corporations in the country as a client she knew her fledgling marketing firm had a lot to prove.

“We’re a small, woman-owned business. They didn’t have a lot of expectations from us,” said Martin, founder of Fairfax-based LeapFrog Solutions.

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