{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The STRONG Roofer™ w/ Adam Bensman","title":"BIG NEWS: RSRA Officially Joins the TAMKO Family","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":700,"description":"RSRA has officially joined the TAMKO family.\n\nI know that might raise some questions.\nTo answer them before you have to ask, and to show you what this means for you moving forward.\nIt started in 2021 when I had a wild dream…\nI wanted to find a partner who would offer sales training, resources, and community collaboration to their contractors.\nAnd they needed to help provide even more value and resources to contractors than I could do on my own.\nI didn’t know who it would be, or how it would happen.\nBut one thing I knew for sure - if I was going to stake my own name behind them, we had to be value-aligned. \nAnd access to the resources needed to continue to be by application-only so we could maintain the standard.\nIn 2025 I shared the idea with Members to reach out to their manufacturer or distributor to see if they’d support, sponsor, or reimburse RSRA Membership dues. \nAnd it worked! Some Members shared success.\nSo it led me to creating a new Sponsorship Offering that would allow a manufacturer or distributor to cover RSRA Membership for their contractors. \nThe day I put the new offer together I picked up the phone and called my good friend Jon Abernathy. \nJon Abernathy joined the TAMKO team about 2 years ago after building and selling a very successful roofing company. He was previously what I would consider a ‘loyalist’ to a different manufacturer. \nBut after he saw the shift in TAMKO’s product development (Titan XT® shingles specifically), leadership, culture, and desire to create a wildly valuable contractor program, he literally sold his company to join the team because he was so passionate about creating positive transformation in the roofing industry. \nSince he joined TAMKO, Jon had been calling on me to get involved, but I initially refused. \nSo when I called him, I figured this would be a good way to find out who was leading the TAMKO team and what they were actually about. It would give me a ‘behind the scenes’ peek. \nJon was ecstatic and set up a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/PaHOnvzPtAbZuaDqKsH4zhz8OxPaxPTyVAt8o8SBBks/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lNjAw/ZDMwMzVlODc3ZjI1/MWVlOWMzMGI5Nzli/ZDY0My5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}