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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
