(FOLSOM, Calif.)—Barcellona Inc., a full service advertising, public relations and graphic design firm has brought home two silver awards and one regional award from the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) “The NationalsSM” awards competition.  Honors included silver awards for the best green marketing campaign and best website for an associate as well as a regional award for best digital marketing tool. Nearly 1,400 entries were accepted and approximately 350 of those came from the west coast, making for a competitive field. Gold honors will be chosen from the silver winners at the International Builder Show in Orlando, FL on February 13, 2008. 

“Being recognized in digital and green categories is a big deal for us,” said Rochelle Barcellona, president and creative director of Barcellona, Inc. “It really demonstrates that we have taken our work to the next level for our clients and have adapted to changes in the market.”

Barcellona has stepped to the forefront of the push for green-minded marketing with its work for energy efficient builders, a solar equipment manufacturer and the California Energy Commission’s New Solar Homes Partnership. The team at Barcellona has made significant changes in the way that it does business by carpooling, driving hybrids, telecommuting, teleconferencing and spending each day working with an elite group of forward thinking clients and suppliers that have adopted similar environmentally friendly philosophies including Treasure Homes, Tim Lewis Communities, SunPower, Estrella & Associates and the California Energy Commission.

Now in its 27th year, The Nationals pays tribute to superior new home sales and marketing achievements by individual sales and marketing professionals, homebuilders and associates, and sales and marketing councils. The nation’s largest competition for new home sales and marketing professionals and communities, The Nationals showcases winners in distinguished national, regional, and local publications. The competition is presented by the National Sales and Marketing Council (NSMC), a council of the National Association of Home Builders, along with co-sponsors Whirlpool Appliances, Gladiator Garage Works, and KitchenAid.

The largest competition in the nation for new home sales and marketing professionals and communities, The Nationals is also the most prestigious, in part because it is national in scope, and categories are linked to real-world marketing strategies and challenges. For more information on The Nationals or to see the full list of regional and silver winners, visit http://www.thenationals.com or call (800) 658-2751.

About Barcellona, Inc.
Barcellona, Inc. is Northern California’s premier integrated marketing communications firm for green, real estate and social marketing. Located in Folsom, Calif., the agency is ideally situated amongst one of the fastest growing regions in the U.S. and is located at 1631 Creekside Drive, Suite 102, Folsom, Calif. 95630.  The agency can be reached by calling (916) 353-5200, or via the website at http://www.barcellonabrand.com/.

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