Growth·3 min
Invoice Like an American: The Document That Makes US Clients Take You Seriously
“Do you have a US entity we can contract with?” With an LLC and an EIN, you stop losing deals and start winning them.
There’s one phrase that causes Latino freelancers to lose deals: “Our accounting department can’t pay a foreign personal account.” At that point, the client goes with a competitor who “looks legitimate.”
Before and after
With a US entity and an EIN, you can send a professional invoice backed by a W-9, get into your clients’ vendor systems, and stop asking them to send Zelle payments to a personal account. Many times, that’s what closes the deal.