Just saw this good article on how you can leverage on WordPress as a e-commerce CMS. – 5 Reasons to Use WordPress as CMS. It concurs with my sentiments. Why use other CMS like Joomla or MaxDev when you can user WordPress to do business too….

How about a Paypal WordPress plugin that lets you charge people for access to your blog via Paypal ? Here’s a great list of WordPress plugins. and also at Theme Viewer

WordPress CMS is not only for personal blogs…..Read on then

Why? Because…

* It Can Be Done, and (Quite) Easily Too
If you were avoiding WP for your news or portfolio site because you thought WP could only be used as a blogging platform, think again. You would be surprised at the multitude of ways WP can be used as a CMS, and how easily you can customise it to do your bidding. The huge repository of currently available WP plugins already ensures that your job is half done.
* You’re Familiar With It
This is probably the No. 1 reason why anyone would want to use WP as a CMS. Familiarity not only breeds trust in the system, but also the ability and expertise to customise it to fit your every need. For those who love to tweak the stuff they use, you’ll be saving a lot of time in the long-run from not having to learn/master a whole new CMS. While you might save time initially from using a CMS more specific to your needs, what if you need to bring in a new function or two?