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About Us | LMSS — Local Marketing for Scottish Businesses
About LMSS

Built for local businesses, by someone who gets it.

LMSS started from a simple observation: most local businesses in Scotland are brilliant at what they do, but they don't have the time — or the budget — for proper marketing help.

The big agencies want a retainer you can't afford. The freelancers are unreliable. And doing it yourself takes hours you don't have.

LMSS exists to fix that. Proper marketing, done for you, at a price that makes sense for a small business.

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Gregg Sommerville
Founder · LMSS Ltd
📍Based in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire
🏌️PGA Professional & Golf Operations Manager at Playsport Golf
Founder of Junior Golf Scotland (charity SC051603)
💡Built digital platforms across golf, sport, and now local business
🤝Genuinely local — lives and works in the communities LMSS serves
The story
Why LMSS exists

I've spent years helping organisations build their online presence — from golf clubs and charities to coaching businesses and community initiatives. Along the way, one thing kept coming up: the small local businesses around me were being left behind.

Their Facebook pages hadn't been updated in months. Their Google Business profiles had wrong hours. They had no email list. Not because they didn't care — but because they were too busy running their actual business to deal with it.

"The skills I'd built up over years of digital work could genuinely help the businesses I see every day in my own community."

LMSS — Local Marketing Services Scotland — is the result. A service designed specifically for the kind of businesses that make up the fabric of our towns: the café on the high street, the plumber who's been here for 20 years, the salon everyone recommends.

How we work
What makes us different

We're not a big agency. There's no account team, no project manager, no account director you'll never actually speak to. When you work with LMSS, you're working with someone local who knows your area and takes your marketing personally.

We also don't take on more clients than we can properly look after. Every client gets proper attention — not a rushed set of generic posts pushed out every week.

And because we're local, we understand the seasonal rhythms, the local events, and the community touchpoints that make content land differently here than it would somewhere else.

That's the thing a template-driven agency will never give you — content that genuinely sounds like it comes from someone who knows Giffnock, or East Kilbride, or Newton Mearns.

What we stand for
Three things we never compromise on
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Honesty first
We'll tell you if something isn't working. We'd rather have that conversation early than quietly keep taking your money while results stay flat. You'll always know where things stand.
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Genuinely local
We live and work in the same communities as our clients. That's not a marketing line — it means we actually know your customers, your area, and what matters to people here.
Done properly
We don't cut corners with generic templates. Every post is written for your business, your audience, your town. It takes longer, but it's the difference between content that works and content that just fills a gap.
By the numbers
A bit about where we are
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Based in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire
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Towns and areas covered across our patch
£99
Starting price — designed for real small businesses
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Long-term contracts required — ever

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