Custom Fish Replicas Versus Standard Fish Replicas

For many businesses the goal is to get the job in and out quick. The faster you can finish the job the quicker you can get paid right? I guess thats true but there's something to be said about creating custom fish replicas for the customer.

When a customer orders a fish replica off our website we always contact the customer asking them if they would like to send in a picture for us to reference when replicating. The standard paint customers are the quickest to create for we do nothing extra and paint our standard way of painting.

However the reward of seeing a customers reaction when we create a replica just as they remember it is truly special.

Dennis Bass caught his biggest sailfish out of Port Canaveral and asked us to do a replica. He asked that we paint it similar to the picture and cut the tears in the dorsal sail. When finished he was completely stoked and truly satisfied with his new replica. While the job took longer than the standard 84" Sailfish mount it sure was nice to feel the excitement he was feeling as he left the shop.

I guess the moral to the story is that standard can be more profitable but not necessarily as fulfilling.