Grow your Business With
Local Media Champs

Champs is a web development and digital marketing partner for local service businesses that ensures your brand gets found, impresses visitors, and produces leads.

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Brands Under Management

5k+

Leads Generated

200k+

Organic Web Visits

$5m+

Revenue Generated

The Mission

Empower Local Businesses with Modern Web Design and Digital Marketing Strategies

Keeping up with modern websites and marketing systems is tough, and hiring a full-time specialist is expensive. Champs solves that by giving you the strategy, tools, and expertise of high-growth companies at a fraction of the in-house cost.

I built Local Media Champs to give local businesses the same level of strategy, technology, and growth expertise used by high-growth startups and large corporations. Before Champs, I worked as a marketing measurement and strategy consultant for Fortune 500 brands and later served as Head of Growth for the SaaS startup Xenia. That experience taught me the tools, systems, and strategies behind effective digital growth — and how far rapid tech advancement has pushed local businesses behind. I realized that applying the same proven playbook big companies use could make a massive difference for small and mid-sized businesses. Today, Local Media Champs supports 14 brands nationwide across multiple industries. All work is done in-house, and I stay on-call for fast support, smart strategy, and results that actually matter.

- Garrett Peppelman, Founder & Operator

Our Values

What to Expect with Champs

Champs is an alternative to hiring an in-house marketing team. We support all digital and print media with the latest technology and an established track record of success.

Technology Driven

Our programs use the latest marketing technology to provide a robust, informed strategy. We stay on the cutting edge so our clients and focus on their customers.

Transparency

If it isn't measured, it didn't happen. We ensure everything we do for you is recorded, tracked and presented in a way that provides complete transparency.

Strategic Diffentiation

Too many companies go through the motions without going the extra mile to bring the championship home. With Champs, your strategy is informed by research and experience with execution at an entirely different level.

Client Engagement

When you hire Champs, you are entering a partnership. This means, we not only care about your vision, we make it our mission to bring it to life. Our process ensures you feel included, while we do the hard work.

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Our Home Base

Proudly Based in Charlottesville, VA

Charlottesville has a special place in the heart of Champs. Our partners are alumni of the University of Virginia. We are thankful for the opportunity to give back to the community that fueled our development.