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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With small businesses still feeling the economic pinch, Widmeyer secured an appearance for the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) on the Job Wars segment of The Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC. Kristie Arslan, executive director of NASE, discussed how small businesses are struggling in this turbulent economy while also highlighting their economic contributions to [...]
Widmeyer Communications secured an appearance for Kristie Arslan of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal during the Labor Day weekend. Arslan took advantage of Labor Day to discuss the important contributions of our nation’s self-employed and micro-businesses to our economy. She also took questions from callers about a variety of [...]
