Then you can add e-commerce and whatever you want with full control over everything.

Pay close attention to bandwidth, storage space, access, database type and version, PHP version, and email services when you choose a host.

While WordPress is free, if you want to make money expect to spend some money to make money. Going for free or low cost hosting will only limit your efforts, and in a few months of frustration, you will want to get your own site with its own name (not myname.cheaphost.com), and then have to deal with transferring everything. Start smart to begin with.

Luckily, with WordPress you have the option of free, low cost and host control, or do-it-yourself, total control versions.

If there is one point I can make that I hope you will listen to, it is this.

If you are doing this as a business, be professional. Do things professionally, seriously, and make a plan. The more serious you are about your plan of action, the more focused and professional you are about the plan, the more likely you are to be successful, in whatever you are doing from blogging to setting up shop anywhere.

Part of focusing and being professional also means focusing on ONE THING not two. Pick one and then go with it for a year. If it fails, learn from your mistakes and then try the other. But doing the two, unless you are HADD, will only hurt you in the long run. Focus, focus, focus.

Good luck.