In another case, legislation is being promoted to restrict and define how we conduct our business. 

You may find that tenants think they want stainless steel appliances (that's what the popular TV shows promote) until they find out they are harder to keep looking nice.

The home is too small, I got a promotion and want to upgrade, the neighbors are loud and annoying, etc etc.

@Jason Davis BP Forums have a rule against self promotion & promotion in general, which is why when asking for referrals we will send them to you as a PM - any other way and our post will usually be deleted by the moderators.

Of course he was trying to promote his mentoring program, but he was not super pushy about it or anything.

I cant actually type it since it would be self promotion.

Add to that that women aren't socialized for self-promotion (partly because most of us have bigger fish to fry than fluffing up our egos), so we're not clamoring to get on the mic. 

For example, purely informational messages — to say your flight was cancelled, remind you of an appointment or tell you that school is opening late — are allowed as long as the business doesn’t use the call to promote the sale of any goods or services."

Tire kickers are likely not motivated to sell on their first call, but if they (or someone they know) ever becomes motivated, it is imperative that you are prepared from that first call to promote yourself as a professional who can provide a solution to their problem.  

If you do this a couple months in a row you will become the candy man and will have embedded into the brain of people who can promote that you buy and sell houses.You could take this one step farther and create a mini flyer wrap around a chocolate bar and deliver them that way but the two or three pieces of candy is less expensive and the fact that you deliver a business card they can hold onto is more powerful than a wrapper that will be thrown away.