Marathon Consulting

Based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Marathon Consulting combines IT consulting with digital marketing services for businesses across a range of industries, including automotive, education, legal, commercial and residential real estate, healthcare, hospitality, insurance, local government, manufacturing, public utilities, tax preparation, and wholesale and retail distribution. The firm positions its work around three audiences—marketing managers, IT managers, and business owners—and has completed projects such as a Microsoft Power Apps solution with SQL Server integration for water sample data collection, a legacy procurement system replacement, and an Umbraco Commerce e-commerce build for meal order management. The company employs 11-50 staff. Marathon Consulting's digital marketing offering covers SEO, pay-per-click and digital advertising, social media marketing, e-commerce, and website design and development. These services sit alongside a broader technical practice that includes custom web, mobile, desktop, and intranet/SharePoint application development, AI development and readiness assessments, database management and administration, SQL Server monitoring, cloud data migration and integration, data warehousing, Power BI analytics and reporting, cyber security, IT staff augmentation, and IT advisory services. The firm describes its approach as pairing marketing initiatives with underlying data and application infrastructure, drawing on work with the Microsoft data platform and case examples spanning application modernization, custom e-commerce systems, and data-driven reporting tools.