Introduction: According to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the average small business owner spends up to 40% of his or her time on administrative work. This may even be on the conservative side as some business owners who have tracked their time for a week or two have been shocked to discover they were actually frittering away a whopping 60% (or more) of their own time on administrative work.
Doing your own administrative work cuts into the time you have to devote to those core revenue-generating areas. If you don't have the skills and resources to do that work well, it will take you longer. If you don't like doing certain things, you'll keep putting them off, creating more and more backlog. All of which ends up zapping your energy and wasting precious time and resources, not saving them.