How Small-Business Owners Can Cast a Social Safety Net

When Twitter went down last year for several hours, tweeters believed that it was a service attack with all their personal and business information hacked and lost. Though Twitter denied falling victim to an attack, new hackers and technologies surface daily -- making protecting your social content and contacts all the more vital.

Not only would trying to rebuild your business's social presence be in the extreme stressful, the loss of information could as well ultimately affect your company's results. To avoid this end, here are six tools to help you cast a social safety net:

It's never too late to get in the habit of preserving your social media information by incorporating a daily backup into your marketing plan. Your social presence is valuable currency these days, so protect it down to the blog post, photo video and link that you shared through one of your social networks.