Smart Biz Practices

04/27/2025

Since we opened our small business, we’ve had the incredible privilege of creating meaningful pieces for so many of you — gifts that celebrate milestones, honor retirements, and mark life’s special moments. We are deeply grateful for the trust and support our community has shown us over the years. As some of you may have noticed, we’ve paused operations since January....

Since we opened our small business, we’ve had the incredible privilege of creating meaningful pieces for so many of you — gifts that celebrate milestones, honor retirements, and mark life’s special…

12/01/2023

Take a look at a recent retirement chest and Shadowbox for a retiring Marine Master Sergeant. We were recently asked to help showcase a retiring Marine with a special gift. We’ve made a set of Retirement Chest and Shadowbox painted in olive drab, distressed to showcase a battle worn exterior. On the outside of the chest we added the Marine’s rank, name and dates of service on durable, glossy vinyl....

Take a look at a recent retirement chest and Shadowbox for a retiring Marine Master Sergeant. We were recently asked to help showcase a retiring Marine with a special gift. We’ve made a set of Reti…

10/01/2023

🇺🇸 Military care packages are packages sent to service members whenever they're serving away from home. This chest resembles chests used in the military to transport supplies, but for our purposes, we recommend using it to store special items like letters, mementos, uniform patches, challenge coins, a flag, pictures, and more!...

🇺🇸 Military care packages are packages sent to service members whenever they’re serving away from home. This chest resembles chests used in the military to transport supplies, but for our pur…

05/26/2023

3x5' flag add-on to be included into the WoodyThings Flag Displays...

3×5′ flag add-on to be included into the WoodyThings Flag Displays

05/17/2023

Personalizing a Retirement Chest Footage of a recent personalization of a Retirement Chest. In this video we’re adding the recipient’s rank, name, service dates and more.

Personalizing a Retirement Chest Footage of a recent personalization of a Retirement Chest. In this video we’re adding the recipient’s rank, name, service dates and more.

05/01/2023

USAF USMC Dual Service Retirement Chest, by WoodyThings, LLC

Take a look at a recent retirement chest and Shadowbox for a retiring Marine Gunnery Sergeant. We were recently asked to help showcase a retiring Marine with a special gift. We’ve made a set of Ret…

05/01/2023

USAF USMC Dual Service Shadowbox, by WoodyThingsLLC

Take a look at a recent shadowbox for a retiring Marine Gunnery Sergeant. We were recently asked to help showcase a retiring Marine with a special gift. We’ve made a shadowbox painted in olive drab…

01/18/2023

Five Stages In a Typical Asset’s Lifecycle

Planning
Assets acquired for organizational use typically undergoes five stages throughout its lifecycle. The planning stage of the contract property lifecycle includes the processes, procedures, and aspects of identifying:
* who are the stakeholders
* what are the requirements identified by the customer
* how is the contract going to be successfully executed (what resources are required and what’s the cost for acquiring it)

The planning stage is critical because among other considerations, it helps an organization understand the requirements, goals, expectations and title to any assets needed to perform the contract terms.

Similarly, small businesses plan when performing estimates, evaluating custom orders, and enter into new partnerships and agreements.

To learn more about this phase, as well as the other 4, check out the title article at SmartBizPractices.com

12/26/2022

Private and Public organizations seeking to maximize efficiency develop practices to get their best bang for their bucks. Organizations at all levels acquire assets to compete within their industry. Although the title of this article highlights “contract property,” the lessons apply to organizations at all levels.

Contract Property provided to organizations, also known as assets, are comprised of tools, equipment, materials, repairable units, and real estate property assets provided to organization for the purpose of executing the contract’s terms. Meaning, the ‘stuff’ given to an organization to perform the contracted work.

These assets often undergo a similar lifecycle, regardless of their ultimate purpose. A summarized contract property lifecycle is listed below:

Planning
Acquisition
Utilization
Excess Screening
Disposition

Comment below and share your best practices to help fellow asset managers, logisticians, small business owners and industry professionals efficiently manage the assets in their possession 👇🏾

11/17/2022

A recent Government Accountability Office report, GAO 22-105251, found inconsistent application of demilitarization codes for Government property under their review.

How does this affect you as an Asset Manager?

(Link at bio)

11/14/2022

During the Defense Acquisition University Mentoring Moments presentation titled Win with your Pen!, Ms. Lisa P. Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Product Support, chaired a panel that included award package and resume writing experts.

The panel members provided tips for writing a winning award nomination package and standout resumes.

An excerpt of each panelist presentation, and video recording available at the Link

11/14/2022

During the Defense Acquisition University Mentoring Moments presentation titled Win with your Pen!, Ms. Lisa P. Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Product Support, chaired a panel that included award package and resume writing experts.

The panel members provided tips for writing a winning award nomination package and standout resumes.

An excerpt of each panelist presentation, and video recording available at the Link