With President Obama’s announcement to elevate the Small Business Administration (SBA) to Cabinet-level status, Widmeyer helped insert its client, the National Association for the Self-Employed, into the national conversation by distributing a press release quoting NASE’s President and CEO Kristie Arslan [...]
With economic uncertainties in Europe, many U.S. experts are sharing thoughts on what actions can be taken by government leaders to strengthen, economically, the EU. Widmeyer secured a placement for Dr. Eleanor Zeff, an associate professor of politics and international relations at Drake University, in a CNN article that questions the effectiveness of the Euro [...]
In advance of President Obama’s jobs speech before a joint session of Congress, Kristie Arslan of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) worked to highlight the economic situation of the small business community and what they need to hear from policymakers to get the economy moving. Widmeyer helped Arslan relate this message on Fox [...]
Following our nation’s historic credit downgrade by Standard & Poor’s, which S&P blamed, in part, on the partisan politics played by policymakers during the debt ceiling debate, Widmeyer helped the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) post an open letter to Congress’ budget super committee on Huffington Post about the need to make tough decisions. [...]
Widmeyer secured a placement for Dr. Thomas Root of Drake University in The Seattle Times. Root, an associate professor of finance, commented on the widening skill gaps in the workforce and how these gaps lead to higher unemployment rates [...]
Widmeyer secured an Associated Press placement for Tom Root of Drake University on the personal impact of the nation’s debt ceiling. Root, an associate professor of finance at Drake, provided advice for 401K investors, “If you have a long-term plan, stay with it.”
Our client, the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE), named Kristie Arslan its new President and CEO. Arslan has been with NASE for the past 10 years, most recently as its Executive Director. Widmeyer has been proud to be the strategic communications partner helping Arslan and NASE secure key placements in The New York Times, [...]
As Congressional leaders debate the debt-ceiling limit, Widmeyer worked to secure the lead interview segment for Kristie Arslan of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) on Sunday, July 10th’s MSNBC’s “Your Business“. “Your Business” is MSNBC’s premiere small business show. She argued that the self-employed community – which represents 78 percent of the small business [...]
Facing little to no awareness of the self-employed business demographic and its dominance in our economy among media and policymakers, NASE enlisted Widmeyer Communications to help raise the profile of its policy agenda in the Washington community.
As Congress debates increasing the debt ceiling, the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) surveyed its membership on ways to address our budget needs. As NASE prepared to release its findings, Widmeyer helped secure a profile of the results in The Wall Street Journal quoting its Executive Director, Kristie Arslan. In addition, Kent Hoover of [...]
