<p>Your question has no direct answer.
Its hard or not impossible to estimate the time spent on marketing, from my side its a full time job.
I spend all day on twitter and reddit, these are my favourite social media.
To setup a pool you can check Cardano Forum and ask mr. Alex post about CNTOOLS.
if you understand something about Linux OS its easy for you, if not, you'll need to learn and some DevOps is required for basic firewall configuration for example.
There's no direct answer to that, if you are already experienced on linux I would not expect more than 1 hour to setup a block producer and two relay.
Check here for CNTOOLS setup tutorial, I'd recommend this because it saved me a lot of time.
<a href="https://forum.cardano.org/t/how-to-set-up-a-pool-in-a-few-minutes-and-register-using-cntools/48767" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://forum.cardano.org/t/how-to-set-up-a-pool-in-a-few-minutes-and-register-using-cntools/48767</a>
good luck</p>

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Agreed, marketing is the hardest part and there is literally no end lol
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<p>From actual stake pool operators, is there an estimated # hours effort for getting the pool up?
How much time do you spend on marketing?</p>

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Stake pool operation: estimated effort in time?
# Stake pool operation: estimated effort in time?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-04-30)

From actual stake pool operators, is there an estimated # hours effort for getting the pool up?
How much time do you spend on marketing?

**Tags:** stake-pool, operator, marketing

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-04-30. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

Your question has no direct answer.
Its hard or not impossible to estimate the time spent on marketing, from my side its a full time job.
I spend all day on twitter and reddit, these are my favourite social media.
To setup a pool you can check Cardano Forum and ask mr. Alex post about CNTOOLS.
if you understand something about Linux OS its easy for you, if not, you'll need to learn and some DevOps is required for basic firewall configuration for example.
There's no direct answer to that, if you are already experienced on linux I would not expect more than 1 hour to setup a block producer and two relay.
Check here for CNTOOLS setup tutorial, I'd recommend this because it saved me a lot of time.
<https://forum.cardano.org/t/how-to-set-up-a-pool-in-a-few-minutes-and-register-using-cntools/48767>
good luck

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> **username_2**: Agreed, marketing is the hardest part and there is literally no end lol  

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