Experience

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  SweetSpot Marketing

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Principal/Creative Director

    • Jan 1999 - Present
    • Greater New York City Area

    SweetSpot Marketing exists to help growing businesses and nonprofit organizations heighten their brand through targeted and visually impactful messaging, in print and digitally. We are an independently owned advertising agency, founded in 1999. We develop and execute integrated marketing communications designed to increase sales and donations. Offerings: logo design, brochures, advertisements, robust websites, product photography, special events planning, and social media marketing. We convey your objectives "spot on" and within budget.Please call me at the office. 631-669-6758. to discuss your upcoming needs and projects.We look forward to hearing from you!Belinda H. Rubino

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  Islip Arts Council

  • Westfield South Shore Mall

  • Advisory Council, Email Marketing Editor, and Gallery Attendant

    • 2019 - Present
    • Westfield South Shore Mall

    Create and execute high-impact weekly marketing communications to promote Islip Arts Council news, exhibitions, art shows and open calls, featured artists, consignment artists, the Gift Shop, Long Island Authors Group Book Store, School of Cultural Arts in-person classes, online master classes and workshops, promote virtual content on Islip Arts Live YouTube channel, annual membership drives and fundraising initiatives. Includes: research, content curation, copyediting, photography, graphic design, external linking, and knowledge of the Constant Contact email system.Perform all gallery attendant duties to ensure the smooth operation of a nonprofit art gallery in a super-regional shopping mall.

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  Belinda Rubino ArtWear

  • 160 Wampum Lane, West Islip, NY 11795

  • Fashion Designer

    • 2018 - Present
    • 160 Wampum Lane, West Islip, NY 11795

    Designer of one-of-a-kind, handmade, upcycled wearable art.

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  WOMEN OF WEST ISLIP, INC.

  • West Islip, New York, United States

  • Treasurer

    • 2022 - 2024
    • West Islip, New York, United States

    The Women of West Islip (WOWI) is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, philanthropy and charity, developing the potential of women, and improving our community through the effective actions and leadership of its members.

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  Knights of York

  • New York, NY

  • Marketing

    • 1999 - 2022
    • New York, NY

    Marketing initiatives and webmaster for http://www.knightsofyork.org

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  West Islip Chamber of Commerce

  • West Islip, NY 11795

  • Executive Board - Vice President Marketing

    • Jan 2009 - Dec 2020
    • West Islip, NY 11795

    West Islip Chamber of Commerce, Executive Board Member - VP Marketing 2018 - 2020; VP Merchants/Marketing 2009 - 2015 - Develop and execute marketing initiatives, built new Website, initiated social media marketing, photographer, and former webmaster, http://www.westislipchamber.org, social media marketer, https://www.facebook.com/WestIslipChamberOfCommerce

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  DC Safety

  • Director of Marketing

    • 2005 - 2008

    Managed integrated marketing activities to showcase DC Safety's brand and products in a vertical market: research, new product development, lead generation, trade shows, advertising, marketing communications, Internet marketing, product photography and Web site re-design.

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  Credit Suisse First Boston

  • Vice President

    • 1978 - 1998

    Group Head - Corporate Communications & Media TechnologiesCo-directed global Internet and Intranet launches; executed 3 corporate re-brandings; managed 24/7 hi-volume IBD Presentation Technologies Division, with 60 staff; managed MIS Group to track client activity by IBD profit center