Are you a lone template/logo designer ?
Are you sick of trying to outbid the big companies on the elance getacoder guru and the like ?
Don't lose faith !!
Most webmasters forums are filled with webmasters who could be given a hand at making their sites look prettier.
Search the net for webmasters forum. I recommend digital point forums or v7n forums - lots of people hang out there. Most of them are enterpreneurs and could not bother to spend time on their logos or templates. They prefer to outsource this to other fellow forum members.
Of course you have to show them some of your work, and maybe charge less for you first gigs until people trust you enough to give you jobs that require more money.
There is also people that would sponsor you for making templates for their favorite cms or link directory scripts or even pay to get an exclusive on your stunning new template.
Three tips:
When you do work for someone ask them in your corespondence to comment on your work when its finished (start a thread in a forum and advertise your work - ask them to comment there). It helps a lot to get more deals if someone is already satisfied with your work and recommends you.
If you are good with making templates lots of webmasters are interested in phpld templates or esyndicat templates and lots of bloggers would be interesting in brand new wordpress templates.
It would be a good idea to create a site where you have all your work concentrated and neatly displayed for the benefit of you potential customers.
Who wants to buy links ?
Google likes sites that have many good links pointing to them (backlnks). Each link counts like a vote to the site that are pointing to. The better the site that is linking the stronger the vote. Roughly speaking the more and relevant the backlinks the better position the site gets among the search engine results. This votes are somehow summed up in what is called the Google PageRank. The PageRank is the little green bar that displays for every page when you have the google toolbar on your browser, the grade scale is from 0 to 10. If you want to know more about the pagerank visit Matt Cutt's blog (one of the chief engineers at google)
Therefore people want as many links to their websites as they can possibly get. Sometimes they are even willing to pay for them.
For this reason most webmaster forums have setup subforums for link development - where people give and get advice on how to build their backlinks - and also sections where people can post their link exchange and link sale offers. A good starting point would be the notorious digitalpoint forums or any webmaster forum that has such subforums.
For more advanced link traders there are places like Text Link Ads that have a network of advertisers that want to get backlinks, and publishers that (in this scenario) are website owners offering backlinks for money. A publisher is registering to be accepted to the program and makes know the websites that he is willing to sell backlinks on. If an advertisers happens to like the website and thinks the price is fair then there is a match and the text link exchange program gets a cut of the deal.
Most link exchange programs will look for a good pagerank, decent traffic (proven with alexa statistics) and relevance of the site to be included in their publishers network.
Luckily for amateurs like me there are places that don't have so strict acceptance rules, like buy sell text link ads and the iwebtool link market (the latter does not charge for any link exchange).
So if you have a site that has built some decent backlinks and pagerank you can sell your links to interested parties.