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smallbusiness "It was very hard to leave the dolphins!" she says. "That was when I started Squid Productions – I guess with the idea to show more people, through video, what is out there. We do video productions for businesses as well as documentaries, photography and website design." Sarah has developed a commercial side to the business, designing marketing material for other businesses – and the side she's particularly passionate about: wildlife documentaries. In pursuit of this career, Sarah completed a diploma in screen and media, then pitched an idea for a documentary to the BBC. "At 18, I was filming a documentary with the BBC. It showed me how much more was out there." "The next thing I know, they're coming over to film with me. So at 18, I was filming a documentary with the BBC. It showed me how much was out there and how much more I needed to fulfil, Fast Fact rather than just swimming with dolphins." SMEs form 99.7% of Younger than most business owneractively trading businesses operators, small in stature and with a in Australia – that's more youthful-sounding telephone voice, Sarah's than two million companies, biggest hurdle has been bringing perceived employing almost three legitimacy to her business. To counter quarters of the total potential clients' perception that she lacks business acumen or maturity, she pursued Australian workforce awards to raise her company's profile and offer among them. proof of her power to deliver results. She won Owner-Operator Business of the Year and was a finalist for Businessperson of the Year at the Regional Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2011. For the meantime, Sarah plans to focus on her wildlife documentaries, and has a series in the pipeline that explores the contrast between life for animals in captivity and those in the wild. She's living out her personal business philosophy. "I want to change the way people see the world that we live in," she says. "I want to show them beauties they never dreamed existed and take them on unimaginable journeys." 38 Previous page, above and left: BikeExchange entrepreneurs Sam Salter and Jason Wyatt; Sarah Robinson was a WA finalist at the 2012 Telstra Australian Business Awards; Sarah's passion is making wildlife documentaries.