Looks like our client, Maribeth Kuzmeski of Red Zone Marketing, made the right connection when she hooked up with Wiley Publishing earlier this year to pen her fourth book, The Connectors. Officially released last Tuesday, the book immediately jumped to within the top 100 business books on Amazon in just one day. Here’s an excerpt from an email we received from Maribeth on Wednesday:

“The Connectors officially released yesterday! We had heavy sales at Amazon yesterday and jumped from ranking 252,000 all the way to 2,300 of all available books! And, we appeared in the top 100 for business books. 1 day! Wow!! THANK YOU!! I really believe that this book is here at the right time when firms need powerful strategies for increasing new business without spending a lot of money. This book is filled with these ideas!

You can find The Connectors: How The World’s Most Successful Businesspeople Build Relationships and Win Clients for Life (Wiley, September 2009), at any bookstore and at all online booksellers including Amazon.com ; Barnes & Noble; Borders; and BooksAMillion. It is also on The Kindle!

About The Connectors: We all know that relationships are critically important in business. The key, however, isn’t knowing that relationships are important. The key is knowing what to do to make them more effective and powerful! In this book I have gathered the details of how some of the world’s most successful businesspeople actually create better business relationships. In writing the book, I conducted interviews of hundreds of successful businesspeople, CEO’s and founders of companies.”

And speaking of her interviews, if you hadn’t heard, we here at smith&jones were quite flattered when Maribeth contacted us to ask about our long-term client success. And even more flattered when she dedicated three pages to our philosophies in her new book.

But don’t just take it from us; this book is chock full of valuable client-relationship advice that is never so important as it is today. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest keyboard and order yourself up a copy of The Connectors today!