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Headsets.com

Headsets.com is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Headsets.com rather than just read about it. In short: Headsets.com is a San Francisco based ecommerce business founded by Mike Faith in 1997. The website specializes in wireless and corded office headsets, and has been listed among the Inc. 5000 since 2004.

Key takeaways

Headsets.com belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Headsets.com to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Headsets.com from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Headsets.com is a San Francisco based ecommerce business founded by Mike Faith in 1997. The website specializes in wireless and corded office headsets, and has been listed among the Inc. 5000 since 2004.

History Headsets.com was founded by Mike Faith in 1997 after Faith had trouble shopping for headsets for the company he was with at the time. By 2000, the company's revenue was at $3 million, which grew to $11 million in 2003, and $32 million in 2005. During this time the company purchased the domain name Headsets.com and the phone number 1(800) HEADSETS. Today Headsets.com generates over $30 million in sales annually with over 1,000,000 customers.

Culture and daily operations Headsets.com has a turnover rate of 15% in an industry where the average is over 50%. Faith attributes this to incentives he implemented including a $1,500 annual training stipend, a one-month paid sabbatical after three years of service, and a free trip to Sydney—in which employees are sent to vacation to work with a voice coach. Employees frequently visit other innovative online companies (such as Zappos, StubHub, and others), to inspire new ideas. The company's strategy uses customer service as their competitive advantage. The company employs voice coaches and psychologist to train their call center representatives. In 2006 Headsets.com won the Stevie Award for "Best Customer Service Team." According to the company, Headsets.com representatives do not use scripts to encourage genuine conversations. The company was named among San Francisco Business Times' "100 Best Companies to Work for in the Bay Area".

Marketing Headsets.com has periodically earned media attention through marketing tactics and stunts. In 2009, as a response to a new hands-free cell phone law in California, the company offered a headset giveaway for anyone who was ticketed under the new law. Faith offered a free cellular headset to anyone who sent the company proof of their ticket. That same year, the company offered free headsets for life to anyone who tattooed the company's name on their body. In 2012, Headsets.com won the right to legally change the last name of entrepreneur Jason Sadler to "Jason HeadsetsDotCom." The investment generated $250,000 in new sales and over $6 million in media coverage.

References

External links Headsets.com OfficeRunner

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Headsets.com

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Headsets.com claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Headsets.com before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Headsets.com ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Headsets.com

In research: Headsets.com appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Headsets.com in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Headsets.com is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Companies based in San Francisco, Consumer electronics retailers of the United States, Internet properties established in 1997, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Headsets.com outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Headsets.com in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Headsets.com means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Headsets.com out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Headsets.com in simple terms?

Why does Headsets.com matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Headsets.com?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Headsets.com.