The short version. An internship you pay for is a course, not work experience. Nobody hiring for sales cares where you "interned" — they care how you got in front of them and what you can do for them. Below is a free, practical course: which US small businesses need Aunimeda CRM (AuniCRM) and Auni AI, where to find them, what to write and say, and how to help a client get up and running. There's nothing to build — the products are ready. You earn through the Aunimeda referral program: the client pays Aunimeda directly, and you're credited a percentage of every payment they make.
The free course in this article has six modules: who to sell to, where to find contacts, what to write and say, how to demo and handle objections, how to set up and launch a client with no development, and a plan for your first 30 days.
If you're paying for the internship, it isn't an internship
You've seen the pitch: "Pay for the program and get an internship placement." "Job guarantee." "Work on real client projects." It isn't only anonymous online schools selling this. Big, well-known brands sell paid "internship programs" and "immersions" too — with a famous logo on the certificate.
Look at it from the business side. A real internship is a company investing in a person because it expects that person to be useful. When you pay, the company earns from your tuition, not from your work. That's a course dressed up as an internship.
A course on its own is a fair deal when you know you're buying knowledge. It stops being fair when what's being sold is a job that doesn't exist. And when the promised placement never shows up, an expensive course is just a scam.
Why no one hiring for sales cares where you interned
A business owner or sales manager doesn't hire a line on a résumé. They ask themselves two questions:
- How did this person get to me? If you found the company yourself, wrote a sharp message and booked a meeting, you've already demonstrated the core sales skill. No certificate shows that.
- What will they actually do for us? "Completed a course" isn't value. "Brought in three clients who are still paying" is. "Set up an AI assistant for a salon so it stopped losing after-hours inquiries" is.
That's why in sales the best résumé is a result someone can check: clients you brought in, and owners who will vouch for you. The name of a company you paid to "intern" at doesn't make that list.
Red flags of a course that sells thin air
- You pay for a "seat," "project access" or an "internship." Working on "real projects" with your own money is free labor for the organizer.
- A "job guarantee" with an asterisk. Read the contract: often the only guarantee is an interview invitation, or a refund under conditions that are close to impossible to meet.
- Pressure. "Three spots left," "today only," financing signed during the webinar.
- Instructors who don't sell. Ask: "How many clients did you personally close last month?" No answer means they're teaching you to sell courses, not products.
- The certificate is the main deliverable. Employers don't verify it and don't pay for it.
- No answer to a simple question: "What will I be able to do a month from now, and who will pay me for it?"
Three or more of these? Don't pay. Below is what they promise you for money — for free, and without promises nobody intends to keep.
What Aunimeda offers: a product, a course and a straight deal
We're not hiring — the development team is full — and we don't promise anyone a job. We offer three things.
- Ready-made products almost every business can use: Aunimeda CRM and Auni AI. Nothing to build.
- A free course — this article. No sign-up, no financing, no "last seats."
- A referral program. You recommend the product, the client subscribes through your link and pays Aunimeda directly, and you're credited a percentage of every payment they make for as long as they keep subscribing. Clicks, payments and credits are all visible in your dashboard.
Starting costs nothing: no legal entity, no purchase, no volume commitments. Bring nobody and you owe nothing.
Why is the course free? Because everyone's interests line up: you earn your percentage while the client keeps using the product, and clients stay when someone helped them properly. The more honestly and skillfully you sell, the better it is for all three of us — the client, you and Aunimeda.
What you're selling: two products are more than enough
Aunimeda CRM (AuniCRM) — the whole business in one system
- Clients and their full history in one record.
- Online booking: customers pick the service, the staff member and the time from the business's booking link — which can go in the Instagram bio, on the website and on the Google Business Profile.
- Inventory: multiple warehouses and sales locations, stock levels, low-stock thresholds.
- Production: recipes (bills of materials) — log a batch, and the raw materials are deducted automatically while the batch cost is calculated.
- Sales: retail sales and wholesale invoices for cafés and stores.
- Expenses and reports: revenue, cost of goods, profit — by day, location, product and customer, with export to a spreadsheet.
- Import from Excel: the product list goes in as one file — no retyping.
- No per-seat fees.
Auni AI — AI that answers your customers
- Answers customers on Instagram, WhatsApp and Telegram around the clock — using that business's prices, rules and voice.
- One inbox: every conversation in one window, and a staff member can take over any chat at any moment.
- Understands voice messages and answers in the language the customer wrote in.
- Voice mode: the AI can also pick up WhatsApp calls.
- Trial period: the business tests the assistant on its own messages before paying.
Why that's enough
A small business almost always needs two things: not losing customer inquiries, and knowing what sold, what's left and who's booked. Auni AI handles the first, Aunimeda CRM the second. Most don't need a custom website, an app or custom development to get started.
So you don't need to code. You're selling a clear outcome — "no inquiry falls through the cracks," "inventory without the notebook" — on a product that already works.
Module 1. Who to sell to
Not "every business" — the ones whose problem you can see from the outside. For each type: the pain, what to offer, and how to spot the pain before you write a word.
Hair salons, barbershops, nail and lash studios. Pain: booking happens in DMs, late-night messages go unanswered, open slots sit empty. Offer: Auni AI plus online booking in the CRM. Signal: "DM to book" in the bio, price questions left unanswered in the comments.
Tutoring and test-prep centers, music and dance schools. Pain: the same questions about price and schedule over and over, especially before a new term. Offer: Auni AI plus the client base in the CRM. Signal: "how much?" and "when does it start?" under their posts.
Boutiques selling on Instagram, florists, bakeries taking custom orders. Pain: "DM for price," and a reply hours later means the customer already bought somewhere else. Offer: Auni AI. Signal: lots of "DM for price" posts.
Small producers — bakeries, meal-prep kitchens, small-batch cosmetics, apparel makers. Pain: raw materials, unit costs and wholesale invoices live in a notebook or in the owner's head. Offer: Aunimeda CRM — inventory, production, wholesale. Signal: they sell wholesale to cafés and shops and take orders by phone.
Distributors and retailers with several locations. Pain: nobody sees stock across locations, or who owes what, in one place. Offer: Aunimeda CRM — warehouses, invoices, reports per location. Signal: several addresses on Google Maps, "call to check availability."
Businesses whose customers message on WhatsApp first. Plenty of US businesses serve communities that live on WhatsApp — restaurants, grocery and delivery services, travel agencies, event vendors. Pain: one phone and more chats than one person can answer. Offer: Auni AI. Signal: a WhatsApp number on the storefront, the website or the Google listing.
Real estate teams, property managers, auto repair shops. Pain: leads arrive from different channels and repeat customers get lost. Offer: Auni AI plus the CRM. Signal: active listings and ads, lots of inbound questions.
Where not to start: large companies with their own IT department and procurement process — long sales cycles, and you need experience first. Also skip medical, dental and legal practices: patient and client information there comes with rules this course doesn't cover. Start with businesses where one person — the owner — makes the call.
Module 2. Where to find contacts
- Your warm circle — start here. Businesses where you're already a customer: your barber, your coffee shop, your kid's tutoring center. Friends and family who own a business, former employers. They already trust you, and the first client most often comes from here.
- Google Maps. Search by category and neighborhood — "nail salon," "bakery," "auto repair." The listing shows the phone, website and hours, and often Instagram or WhatsApp. Read the reviews: "couldn't get through" and "never answered my message" are your future talking points.
- Yelp. Same idea, with a longer review history. Businesses with reviews complaining about slow answers are your best leads.
- Instagram. Search by location tags and local hashtags. Ignore follower counts and look for pain signals: "DM for price," unanswered comments, "book via DM only."
- LinkedIn. Useful for distributors, producers and multi-location retailers: look up the owner or operations manager by company name.
- Local business networks. Your Chamber of Commerce member directory, local business associations, small-business events and Facebook groups for owners in your area.
- Walk in. For small businesses in your neighborhood, stopping by in person beats any message.
Who exactly to contact. The owner or general manager makes the decision. The front-desk person doesn't decide, but feels the pain first. Ask them how many messages come in a day and what happens to people who write after hours — they'll bring it up with the owner themselves.
Ground rules:
- Contact only the business contacts the business published itself.
- One business, one personal message. No mass emails, no purchased lists, no automation tools.
- Email: your real name, an honest subject line, your mailing address in the signature, and stop the moment someone asks you to. CAN-SPAM applies to sales emails, business-to-business included.
- Calls and texts: no auto-dialers, no prerecorded messages, and no texting personal cell numbers without permission — that's TCPA territory.
- Be upfront that you earn a referral commission. It's honest — and if you ever recommend the product publicly, in a post or a review, the FTC requires you to disclose that connection.
- "No" means no. Don't follow up again.
- You always speak for yourself, never for Aunimeda.
Module 3. How to reach out and what to say
Five principles for first contact:
- Their business first, the product second. One specific detail proves you're not blasting a template.
- Offer to show, not to sell. "I can show you on your own business in ten minutes" takes the pressure off.
- Keep it short: three to five sentences. No "exclusive offers," no all caps.
- Be upfront: who you are and why you're writing. If they ask how you get paid, say so plainly.
- No promises on prices, discounts, timelines or features on the company's behalf.
Script 1. Salon, studio, tutoring center — Instagram DM or WhatsApp
Hi [name]! I'm [your name] — I know my way around AI assistants for small businesses. I noticed you take bookings through DMs and get a lot of price questions in the comments. There's an assistant that answers customers on Instagram and WhatsApp around the clock, using your prices and your tone. Happy to show you on your own salon — it takes about ten minutes. Interested?
Script 2. Bakery, producer, distributor — email or phone
Subject line: "Batch costs at [business name]"
Hi [name], I'm [your name]. I help small producers get their inventory and unit costs out of notebooks and spreadsheets. I saw you sell wholesale to cafés and shops — how are you tracking raw materials and costs today? Aunimeda CRM has recipes built in: log a batch, the materials are deducted, the unit cost is calculated and the invoice is ready. I can walk you through it on your own products — fifteen minutes, at your place or over video.
[Your name] · [phone] · [mailing address] Not relevant? Just answer "no" and I won't write again.
On the phone, it's the same thing, shorter: your name, one detail about their business, a question about how they track materials, an offer to show.
Script 3. Walking in
Come by outside the rush, and start with the front desk:
Hi! I'm not selling anything right now — I just have two quick questions. Roughly how many messages do you get a day? And what happens to people who write after you close?
If there's pain:
There's a tool that answers for you at night and on weekends, from your price list. Could I leave my number for the owner and show them in ten minutes?
Script 4. Your warm circle
Hey! Remember you said you can't keep up with customer DMs? I've been digging into something: an AI that answers your customers from your price list, around the clock. Let me show you on your account — if it's not for you, we forget it.
Script 5. One follow-up, three or four days later
[Name], one quick follow-up and then I'll leave you alone. If this isn't a priority right now, just answer "no" — totally fine.
If they ask, "Are you with Aunimeda?"
No, I'm not an employee. I'm part of Aunimeda's referral program and earn a percentage of the subscription. The contract and payment are directly between you and Aunimeda — no money goes through me.
That's a program rule, and it also builds trust: you're not hiding how you get paid.
Module 4. The demo and objections
A 10–15 minute demo
- Three questions first. Where do your customers come from? How many messages a day? Where do you keep track today — a notebook, a spreadsheet, your head?
- One scene, not every feature. For a salon: the assistant answering "how much is a gel manicure and how do I book?" and sending the booking link right away. For a bakery: logging a batch and a wholesale invoice. Everything else can wait.
- The next step, right away: "Let's load your price list and test the assistant on real messages." The sign-up goes through your referral link.
Handling objections
| They say | You say |
|---|---|
| "It's expensive" | "Compare it with one customer who wrote at night and went to a competitor. You'll see the current plans yourself at sign-up — I don't quote prices or promise discounts." |
| "The bot will say something dumb" | "It answers from your prices and your rules. For the first few days we review the chats together and fix the answers, and you can take over any conversation by hand." |
| "We have a receptionist" | "It doesn't replace your receptionist — it takes the repetitive questions off their plate and covers nights and weekends." |
| "Everything's in a spreadsheet or a notebook" | "Your products go into the CRM as one Excel file — no retyping." |
| "We're worried about our data" | "The account is in your business's name and the contract is with Aunimeda. I set it up with you, on your device, and I never ask for passwords." |
| "Can you give us a discount?" | "Discounts aren't mine to give — the terms come from Aunimeda. What I can do is help you launch so you see the benefit sooner." |
| "Let me think about it" | "Of course. What would you need to check to decide? I can follow up next week — or just tell me no now, that's fine too." |
Module 5. Setup and launch — no development
Strictly speaking, all you owe is the recommendation: development, support and paperwork stay with Aunimeda. But a client who got help launching stays subscribed — and your percentage is credited for as long as they pay. That's why an evening of setup with the client is the best use of your time.
Auni AI: the first evening
- Sign up through your link at ai.aunimeda.com — in the business's name and email, not yours.
- Channel: Instagram, WhatsApp or Telegram — connected step by step in the dashboard.
- Knowledge base: prices, address, hours, booking, payment and delivery terms, plus 15–20 frequent questions with answers. Pull them from old chats — that's where the truth about customers is.
- Rules: what the assistant never promises (discounts, timelines, availability it can't check) and when it hands the chat to a person.
- Tone and language: formal or casual, short or detailed. The assistant answers in the customer's language — if the business has Spanish-speaking customers, test the Spanish answers too.
- Hours and booking link: if the business books through Aunimeda CRM, add the link to the assistant's answers.
- Test: 20 real questions from old chats. Fix anything it got wrong in the knowledge base.
- Watch for a week: once a day, review the chats with the owner. Questions without a good answer go into the knowledge base.
Aunimeda CRM: the first week
- Activation. Aunimeda sets the company up in the CRM; the owner then gets a dashboard login.
- Staff and roles: who books, who sells, who sees the reports.
- Services and staff → online booking. The business gets its own booking page at crm.aunimeda.com/company-name. Put the link in the Instagram bio, on the Google Business Profile and in the assistant's answers.
- Products: save the spreadsheet from Excel as CSV and upload it as one file. Set up warehouses and sales locations right away.
- Production: fill in the recipes — how much raw material goes into a batch. Run the first batch together.
- Reports: after a week, show the owner revenue and profit by location and product. That's when the CRM stops being "one more app."
What you never do
- Take money from the client — not for the subscription and not "for setup." Aunimeda issues the invoices.
- Introduce yourself as an employee, manager or representative of Aunimeda.
- Promise prices, discounts, timelines or features on the company's behalf.
- Sign anything for Aunimeda or negotiate as Aunimeda.
- Send mailings, make cold calls, post comment spam or run ads in Aunimeda's name.
- Register domains, accounts or pages that use the Aunimeda name.
Breaking these rules switches your link off and cancels unpaid credits. The full rules are on the referral program page.
Module 6. Your first 30 days
| Week | What to do |
|---|---|
| 1 | Get your referral link. Try Auni AI yourself — for example, connect a test Telegram bot. Build a list of 30 businesses: 10 from your warm circle, 20 from Google Maps, Yelp and Instagram. |
| 2 | No more than five personal messages a day, each with a detail about that business. The goal: your first conversations and demos. |
| 3 | 10–15 minute demos. Make your first launch a model one: an evening of setup and a week of watching. |
| 4 | Ask your first client for an introduction: "Which owners you know would get the same value?" With their permission, write up a short before-and-after story. |
Keep a simple tracker: business, contact, date, response, demo, outcome. A month in, you'll know your conversion rate — and whether messages, calls or walk-ins work best for you.
That's your résumé
In a month or two you'll have something no paid course can give you: paying clients and business owners who will vouch for you. Want a sales job? Show that in the interview. Want to keep working for yourself? Your percentage keeps being credited as long as your clients keep subscribing.
Nobody hiring for sales cares where you interned. They care how you got in front of them and what you can do for them. This course teaches both.
FAQ
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You sell ready-made products and help clients launch them. Aunimeda handles development, support and paperwork.
Do I need a business entity?
No. The referral program doesn't require a legal entity.
Is this a job at Aunimeda?
No. We're not hiring, and the referral program isn't employment. You recommend the product on your own behalf.
How much can I earn?
That depends on how many clients you bring and how long they keep subscribing. Percentages and payout terms are in the dashboard. We don't promise income — and we'd suggest not trusting anyone who does.
Can I charge the client for setup?
No. The client pays only Aunimeda; your income is the referral percentage.
Where do I get my referral link?
On the referral program page — it links to the dashboard. Registration takes a couple of minutes.
About Aunimeda. Aunimeda does interdisciplinary R&D in AI, the life sciences and software. Research comes first — advancing medicine through artificial intelligence — and around it Aunimeda builds its own platforms: Auni AI, Aunimeda CRM and AuniDraw.