You're in a company that doesn't include training. You signed up based on your interest in a product, vs. your education about running a business. I know there are people who don't like network marketing, but it's because they've been exposed to companies who do it badly or dishonestly. There are plenty of corporations who do things badly too, so there's nothing inherently more "legit" about a corporate position, where most of the profits go to the management and not to the employees. In a good multi-level marketing company, all of those intermediate layers are eliminated and employees/distributors are paid based on their own efforts. There are plenty of people who don't understand network marketing when it's done right, and they either have a negative opinion of it for no reason or they're afraid of it. If you don't understand it, you have no hope of finding more people to be a part of your team.
So you need to understand your company's compensation plan. Is is a "binary" plan where you sign up 2 people below you, and then they have to build down evenly or otherwise you don't get paid? Bad plan. Can you build as deep and as wide as you want? Excellent plan? Do commissions "bypass" you and go up line if some of your people don't turn out to be motivated? Bad plan. Is your company part of the Direct Selling Association which only admits a few hundred companies based on their business ethics and after a year of their books being scrutinized? Good. Where is your training? Is it just based on the person who signed you up? Bad company. Is there a low start up cost (say, $25) and free training including local, regional, on line, webinar, conference/training call and other programs? Good. Did you have to invest in a whole lot of inventory? Bad. Is there a business guarantee, like a 90% buy-back for one year? Excellent. Is your company a brand new one with little track record, or does it have a long history of being very stable so that people know the company will be around for years to come? Is your product of appeal to a very limited market, such as just women or just people with a certain decorating style or jewelry preference? You have a limited market. Do you have to work only with people in your immediate geographical area? You have a limited market and there may be too many people in your area already doing it.
Are your products a "one shot" deal where you have to constantly find new customers? Are they luxuries that people can do without? You're going to be very frustrated because you're going to constantly be on the prowl for new customers, and you're going to irritate the heck out of people who are sick to death of being invited to parties to buy stuff to help you out. Or, are you offering a consumable product that provides incredible benefit so that happy customers re-order regularly? That's how you build residual income.
I suggest you read books by Robert Kiyosaki and Suze Orman about residual income. There are phenomenal network marketing companies with a lot of credibility - and network marketing is how people made money for years before corporations took over. Everything from Fuller Brush to Mary Kay to Tupperware started this way. Insurance brokers and doctors and hairdressers all build businesses based on good service and good referrals - they aren't part of big corporations. They network.
If you don't have the support and training to work this business, and if you didn't investigate this or have it explained to you, you may not be in a good company (or you haven't investigated enough). How you go about finding customers and team members depends on what your products are. Jewelry is different from nutrition, and brokering energy savings is different from make up or cleaning products. So it's impossible to answer you more fully without knowing what you're selling.
