When budgets are tight, but you still need to know which of your new product concepts are winners, there are still options you can consider. We have conducted a couple of surveys for clients using consumers recruited from their own websites. whilst the results may not be as "pure" as those gained using paid respondents, they are certainly a lot better than nothing.
We used this techninque for a well know global confectionery company recently and not only saved them thousands of pounds on recruitment fees, but gave them the ability to test new concepts amongst some of their most loyal consumers