Plan on one sitting for the two or three platforms your customers actually check, if you write one bio and reuse it. Setting up eight platforms from scratch, with a fresh bio, new images and each platform's own process, takes several hours. These are planning estimates, not measured times.
Why This Matters
The setup itself isn't hard. What slows most owners down is the small decisions: what the bio should say, which category to pick, which email to use and what size the logo should be. Those decisions stack up and push a short task to next week. Make each one once, write it down and reuse it on every platform.
An Example
Picture a solo chiropractor who has been putting this off. Two sentences from the website's about page, trimmed to fit, can serve as the bio on Google Business Profile, Facebook and Instagram. LinkedIn can wait a month. Three profiles instead of eight can fit between appointments.
What Most People Get Wrong
Owners treat setup like a big project that needs a whole day. It is a series of short tasks, one platform at a time. The bio is the hard part, so write it first and the rest goes quickly. Don't wait to batch it; do the next one.
Where to Go Next
How to set up social media for your business walks through the whole job, and Google Business Profile, Facebook and LinkedIn each have their own guide. If you use scheduling software, add time to connect each account, because each network asks you to log in and approve access. Setup happens once, and the regular work is what takes ongoing time: how much time social media marketing takes compares owner hours by option. If you would rather hand it over, Boomp's Social, handled plan at $275 a month includes help with social setup.