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Competition in business means there’s always winners and losers. Our story started because we love working out what winning companies do to stay ahead of the market.
Winners focus on customers, and how to keep learning and improving. They think ahead, and work out what they need to raise their game. They outthink the competition.
But they also bring that thinking to life with actions. They make moves to convert their strategies into actions. Winners outplay the competition.
Outthink and outplay the competition and pretty soon, you’re outgrowing them too.

We work with businesses to raise their skills in marketing, creative and e-Commerce. We support them to outthink, outplay and outgrow the competition with ideas, insights and inspiration from our many years of experience creating consistent brand and sales growth.
Read more of our story to see how we coach, curate and celebrate getting smarter to win more.
Coaching and consulting services
We’ve a lot expertise and experience in using marketing, creative and e-Commerce skills to grow brands and drive profitable sales.
Our coaching services analyses and identifies your marketing skills needs. We work with you to build your competence and confidence in getting better at the skills that attract, persuade and delight customers.
We also consult to help you solve specific business challenges across marketing, creative and e-Commerce.
Expert skill guides to raise your game
You can tap into our expertise and experience through our guides that cover key skills in marketing, creative and e-Commerce. We also share more learning with articles on our weekly blog. These skill guides and articles give you knowledge, techniques and tips you can use to grow your brand and business.
But like any free advice or information available online, if you can read them, then so can your competitors.
So when you need more personalised coaching, contact us directly to ask how we can work together. There’s no charge until we start finding you ideas, insights and inspiring information that’ll grow your business.

Through our marketing expertise and experience, we coach and consult so you get smarter at understanding customers, build stronger brands and activate winning and profitable marketing plans.
Our popular marketing skill guides include :-

We bring deep understanding of creative processes and techniques and coach and consult on the skills to get smarter at activating innovative, impactful and profitable consumer experiences.
Our popular creative skill guides include :-

And finally, we coach and consult e-Commerce skills to deliver smart and pragmatic marketing, commercial and operational expertise and experience to plan and drive growth through this exciting channel.
Our popular e-Commerce skill guides include :-
Celebrate smartness and winning in our shop
When we’re not coaching and consulting, we also run our own online store. So, we don’t just advise others. We like to play with marketing, creativity and e-Commerce too.
Our three-brains online store sells unique and innovative merchandise that celebrates smart thinking and competitive game playing.
Our store is where we keep our skills up. We try out new ideas and techniques, so we can share what works and what doesn’t with your business.


We have great answers
Knowledge is a big part of raising your game. And questions and answers help build knowledge. We love questions. And we love answers.
Our Frequently Asked Questions cover questions and answers across all the topics we cover. Check out the links to our three-brains skill guides so you can find out more.
We also cover questions and answers about working with Three-brains. How do we work? And how do you work with us? Find out more about our story.
Three-Brains Founder
Three-brains was created by Richard Boniface (LinkedIn profile here)
Rich has worked for leading FMCG businesses in the UK and Australia including Glenmorangie, Allied Domecq, Ryvita, Danone Nutricia and Campbell Arnott’s.
During his career, Rich has been a marketing analyst, a market research manager, a marketing knowledge manager, a brand manager, a marketing manager, a digital and e-Commerce leader, and an online store D2C founder.
He’s learned a lot about what makes a difference in marketing, creative and e-Commerce.

And he loves to share what he’s learned.
Business claims to fame include setting up the world’s first online whisky tasting with Glenmorangie. He returned Tia Maria to growth after 2 years of decline and was one of the leaders of Aptamil’s charge from #3 to #1 infant formula brand in the UK. This tripled the size of the business in 5 years. And he set up an infant formula online store in Australia that took over $40m in sales in the first 3 years after launch.
A thinker, a do-er and a player, Rich is driven by the challenge of outthinking and outplaying the competition.
A genuine business all-rounder, he loves to bring unconventional and original thinking to business problems. He is the lead consultant for all Three-Brains consulting solutions.
Three-brains are based in Wollstonecraft, Sydney, Australia.
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