A successful daily deal promotion requires business owners to determine the purpose of the deal, evaluate the rewards and risks, and prepare for the execution, according to Jeremy Sisk, president of Xperience4Higher, a Durham marketing firm focusing on small businesses.

Here are some expanded tips from Sisk on key daily deal decisions, which include:

Groupon is offering a deal on Redbox movie rentals: two bucks for four DVD rentals.

Once you purchase the deal, Groupon will email you the codes.

Movie lovers will want to take advantage of this deal offered by daily deal site Groupon: $5 in Blockbuster Express rentals for $2.

You'll receive five $1 promo codes that can be used at any Blockbuster Express kiosk for BlockbusterExpress.com. Expires May 1.

Click here to read all the fine print on the deal.

Groupon, the online daily deal site, is holding a job fair in Charlotte in March to assess local talent as it thinks about opening an office in North Carolina.

Charlotte Observer reporter Ely Portillo reported today that the company said Charlotte was "high on its list of cities" for expansion. A Charlotte office could mean as many as 150 hires, Portillo reports. Read the entire story here.

If gifts from the Peanut Roaster are part of your holiday tradition, you're going to want to snatch up this Groupon deal.

The daily deal site Groupon is offering a 50 percent off deal at Old Navy.

For $10, you get $20 to spend at Old Navy.

Groupon is offering a great deal today for movie goers:

Movie tickets, popcorn and drinks at a 65 percent savings!

In the increasingly crowded world of daily deal sites, Aisle50.com is scheduled to launch on Monday morning.

Instead of offering up teeth whitening sessions or horseback riding lessons, Aisle50 will be selling groceries at an average discount of 50 percent off retail price.

“It’s stuff everybody uses at a store you already shop at,” said Christopher Steiner, 34, one of the three founders of the Silicon Valley startup, believed to be the first daily deal site in the country exclusively selling groceries.

Aisle50, which eventually plans to go nationwide, is launching in North Carolina and South Carolina in a partnership with Winston Salem-based Lowes Foods.

Go HERE for the details on the Groupon deal.

I dined there last week at lunch and really enjoyed it. This amount could make a very nice dinner or a girls night out.

Check it out. Conan O'Brien is spoofing those bizarre Groupon ads that debuted during the Super Bowl (the ads have since been revised by Groupon).