How to Build a Trust Building Relationship With Freelancers

There's no guarantee anyone will book you, no matter how good your work is. Budgets are usually exhausted the moment people make them so you will have to churn through a few losses to take a win. A free trial is a trust building exercise. So use it as such. Buill trust, build a portfolio, build it in public and increase your opportunity surface by doing it for free and then get paid.