Indeed. If you're a restaurant/spa/bowling alley in need of drumming up some business, the daily deals channel, with all of its issues, will still generate the most qualified leads for the buck. Other channels are newspaper or Yellow Pages ads (probably dead) or a combo of Google/Facebook micro-targeted ads.
The only, repeat the ONLY thing that matters, is cost to acquire a customer and the value of that customer to you in the term for which you can afford to measure. Daily Deals RARELY put you in the positive for that metric unless your conversions and retention numbers in the amount of time you can afford to measure are fantastic.
