Recruiting alone isn’t everything in network marketing. In a real opportunity, product will actually have to be bought and used by someone. In a genuine network marketing opportunity, with excellent and reasonably priced products that people really use, there will be quite a lot of consumption and product use by the distributors themselves. Retail sales to customers not participating in the compensation plan will commonly happen just by letting people know what you have (not all people you tell will desire to be a distributor), so you should see product usage in these two ways.