As the President and Congress debate the merits of the so-called “Buffett Rule” this month, National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) President and CEO Kristie Arslan is calling on both the President and Congress to focus more on the “Baffle Rule,” or removing baffling tax rules impacting millions of Americans [...]
Widmeyer client The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) has appeared in national stories in Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes and the Yahoo! Small Business channel over the past week as an expert on crowdfunding – an emerging online business trend that enables individuals to fund businesses by pooling donations through websites that match donors with small [...]
Economic issues have dominated the news in recent years as the nation continues to respond to “the Great Recession.” But Americans have always been resourceful in the face of adversity [...]
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 [...]
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.
Widmeyer Communications was awarded the coveted 2011 Bronze Anvil Award of Commendation from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) for “outstanding public relations tactics — the individual items or components that contribute to the success of an overall program or campaign.” We received the Award of Commendation in the “Editorial/Op-ed Columns” category for a [...]
With the threat of a Government shutdown, Widmeyer helped the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) highlight the plight of America’s small business community that would be affected by a shutdown. Following a meeting with the White House, Widmeyer conducted outreach among reporters watching the discussions between the White House and Congress and secured a [...]
With tax day looming, Widmeyer Communications is helping the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) alert our nation’s millions of self-employed business owners about the temporary health care insurance tax deduction they can claim on their 2010 filings. As a result of our outreach, Widmeyer secured stories in USA Today, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and [...]
