., TV commercials, radio ads, motivated seller website, SEO, pay per click/adwords, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online advertising and boosted/promoted social media postings.Bottom line is consistency.

The media and news were promoting the broken economy, massive job losses, and a collapsed stock market, but I knew that I was ready to start my pursuit into real estate.

Not promoting redfin at all but there listing on MLS at least in southern california includes all the bells and whistles other agents are offering.

Additionally, they were promoting a speaker that was coming for two all day sessions, and the price for that was very reasonable as well.  

I am not in the business of attempting to promote illegal or unethical behavior, and to my knowledge, never have intentionally done that.

Every time I have posted anything about my company or what my team does I get flagged by the bigger pockets police and they block my account claiming self promotion.

After we get tenants in (for the income) or at the end of the promotion time we could refinance the new property to pay off the cards.

You're entire rant here, reminds me of when the workers at McDonalds were protesting, and this person came on saying they've been flipping burgers for 10+yrs, didn't want a promotion, just wanted to keep doing what they do, flipping burgers, BUT, they "needed" it to be "fair" pay, so they could buy a home, a new car, go on vacations, have the life they want, but, flipping burgers..... 

These definitions are very poor IMO and the whole deck is stacked against the promoter in the event the deal goes downhill.

If you are going to use the checks for a down payment just make sure you have a plan what you will do when the promotional rate expires.I have 10 business credit cards and the only one that offered any kind of promotion on convenience checks was Discover Business.