The trend over the past 1-2 years has been to move away from a blog look and feel with Wordpress installs. You can absolutely run small businesses with Wordpres

The trend over the past 1-2 years has been to move away from a blog look and feel with Wordpress installs. You can absolutely run small businesses with Wordpress installations and very easily pick a snazzy design up for $50 or so that comes complete with industry-specific pages. I've used http://woothemes.com/ http://woothemes.com/ for that sort of stuff - really spotlights how malleable WP can be.