Influential Woman · Marketing
Stella Morrison
Founder & Content Strategist, CannaContent
Cleveland, OH
Her Story
About Stella
Stella Morrison is the founder and agency owner of a marketing firm she established in 2015. Operating in the Cleveland area, her agency empowers clients, particularly women-owned businesses, to own their digital presence through integrated services in search engine optimization, content marketing, and web design development. As a certified WBENC entity, Morrison holds a bachelor's degree from Rutgers and maintains active memberships in organizations such as the Working Women Connection, NABO, the Women in Content Marketing Association, and WBENC. She participates in initiatives that connect women and women-owned businesses with essential resources and investors. Morrison attributes her success to operating with integrity in the complex field of SEO, motivated by the desire to prevent small business owners, especially women, from being taken advantage of by unscrupulous actors. Her notable achievements include winning the Content Marketing Institute's best topic-specific blog award in both 2023 and 2024, receiving accolades from the Web Excellence Awards and NJ Ad Club, appearing on multiple 30 under 30 and 40 Under 40 lists, and being named to the inaugural Visionaries 200. She also offers DIY courses through Stellar DIY SEO to help women manage their own optimization efforts.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Stella
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to being motivated by doing the right things with integrity. Search engine optimization is complicated and small business owners, especially women, can get taken advantage of by unscrupulous actors. That motivates me to run my business honestly so that a woman can put food on the table because of the work we're doing for her.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
When I was looking to enter marketing, I reached out to someone and asked if I could take them to coffee to pick their brain. She said she had to let people pick her brain, which changed my presumptions. It taught me there's an element of protecting yourself when you run a small business and to be scrupulous about people's intentions. It was a role model moment that changed how I approach this kind of work.
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