There is no denying that when something goes viral it can have a massive impact on a brand. But a lot of businesses feel like the only things to ever go viral are expensive campaigns.

Not True!

This video, a low budget project by two average people, has been a YouTube sensation with over 40 million hits. It just goes to show that simply a clever, or in this case HILARIOUS, concept can go a long way to taking something viral.

Remember: content is king, but rubbish content is rubbish.

The video:

Social media will fix your business? WRONG. A great product will.



Image from UnMarketing
As a copywriter, seeing bad grammar on social platforms sets my teeth on edge. This infographic from www.copyblogger.com highlights 15 errors that you can easily avoid.

Imagine if we all behaved in real life like we do on Facebook. There would be a lot of this:
We love good logo designs. We also love well thought out stuff. So clever logo designs like these ones really make us look twice.


It may be funny, but it also speaks volumes about what it takes for a business to really succeed in social media.
We deal a lot in design here in the Chocolate Shoebox studio, and this means a lot of Photoshop work. So when we see pictures on the internet of Photoshop work we either get really excited or spend the day giggling hysterically at the obvious editing failures.

Well this was one of those times we got really excited. Celebrities are not our favourite topic of conversation, but these Photoshopped renditions were simply too hilarious not to share.

Read more: Celebrities Photoshopped

Nandos is famous for its hilarious parodies and "rip-offs" in the marketing and advertising space. And it's received a lot of backlash for a number of its more controversial ads. But now, we see a different approach to a response by Santam.

Finally a company, who instead of bickering with Nandos, has used it to their advantage. Just brilliant!

Read more: Nandos vs. Santam

Since there have been so many of these What We Think We Do / Actually Do memes floating around lately, we thought we'd jump on the bandwagon.

We're not sure we totally agree though - we also eat a lot of cookies.

This list is the perfect explanation of social media. Originally posted by iknowho (or that's where we found it anyway)

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