How Passion Can Drive Up Prices One man experiences working in the sports industry by building a memorabilia auction and consignment firm.

By David Meltzer

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David Kohler, CEO and founder of SCP Auctions, talks about how his childhood passion evolved into a successful auction house of sports memorabilia. Then, Kohler and host of The Playbook, David Meltzer, discuss the importance of building authentic relationships in the sports industry and beyond. The pair also chat about why memorabilia has staying power despite so many technological changes, when BIZ Experiencess should consider leaving school and some of the auction records that SCP has set.

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David Meltzer

Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing, Speaker, Author and Business Coach

David Meltzer, co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and host of BIZ Experiences's podcast, “The Playbook”, is a Top 100 Business Coach, global public speaker and three-time international best-selling author who has been honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year”.

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