Ep #4 - Glamping Success: Marketing Secrets from Dragon's Den Star, Derry Green

Join host Katie Bessant as she interviews Dragon's Den star, Derry Green from The Secret Garden Glamping about how to set up your glamping business for success and successful marketing strategies to generate bookings year-round. During the episode we chat about: What inspired Derry to start The Secret Garden Glamping What sets The Secret Garden Glamping apart from other glamping sites What marketing strategies have been the most effective for getting bookings How to attract guests during the off-season How the TV exposure from Dragons Den affected the business Top tips for other glamping site/holiday cottage owners Plus so much more! Derry is a entrepreneur and business owner of The Secret Garden Glamping, based in Skelmersdale, who appeared on the BBC’s Dragon’s Den receiving offers from not one but four Dragons; Deborah Maaden, Peter Jones, Sara Davies and Touker Suleyman, to support his niche business. Derry came up with the glamping idea through the covid period when he set up a camp in the family garden as a way to entertain his children.  Before long, using his own self-taught construction skills, he turned the tent into a fully-fledged luxury glamping pod and The Secret Garden Glamping was born. The Secret Garden Glamping is now the most viewed, most followed and most booked site in the UK and has won many awards including Visit England Award for camping, Glamping and holiday park of the year, The AA Glamping site of The Year and the BiBAs Leisure and Tourism Business of the Year.  🐝 CONNECT WITH KATIE 🐝 Website: ⁠https://theholidayhive.com/⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/theholidayhive/⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/theholidayhiveofficial/⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-bessant-31bb84135/⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@theholidayhiveofficial⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@HolidayHive⁠ 🌟CONNECT WITH DERRY🌟 Website: ⁠https://www.thesecretgardenglamping.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesecretgardenglamping⁠ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesecretgardenglamping/⁠ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thesecretgardenglamping To contact Katie, email ⁠[email protected]