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Internal Dealership Hardware

Top 5 Tips for Shooting a Top Dealer Photo

In the dealer world, we know how essential it is to take consistent quality inventory photos. I’ve been in the automotive business my whole life…and in that time, I’ve found two things that always remain true to help dealer customers drive profitability – outstanding on-the-lot service and quality photography.  When we first started Xcite Automotive USA, 13 years ago, we knew just how complex capturing an impactful photo in a competitive landscape really was. It started our journey and has helped

Private Car Photography

Auto vehicle merchandising survey

With nearly all vehicle sales happening online – from the very catching of your customer’s eye to the close of the deal, it has never been more critical to stand out from the competitive crowd of car dealerships. How can you make the best of this evolving car market pattern, improve your car merchandising, and thus your vehicle sales rate?  We at Xcite have conducted an auto vehicle merchandising survey to help you find out the importance of efficient and consistent merchandising of your vehicles

Dealership Video Service

The Dawn of a New Video-Centric SEO Approach

Is traditional SEO dead? The answer is Yes, and No. SEO has evolved due to ever changing algorithms from Google. Gone are the days of keyword spamming and all out link building. Traditional SEO can still work but it takes patience. It may mean months of investments in time and tinkering to hopefully see some organic results that usually sit below paid Google AdWords, video results, and other information competing for the user’s attention. It is due not only to Google algorithm updates, but also

Dealership Photography

Efficiency & Consistency Matter 

With nearly all vehicle sales happening online – from the very catching of your customer’s eye to the close of the deal, it has never been more critical to stand out from the competitive crowd of car dealerships. How can you make the best of this evolving car market pattern, improve your car merchandising, and thus your vehicle sales rate?  We at Xcite have conducted an auto vehicle merchandising survey to help you find out the importance of efficient and consistent merchandising of your vehicles

Managed Lot Techician

Create a Photographer Checklist

In the dealer world, we know how essential it is to take consistent quality inventory photos. I’ve been in the automotive business my whole life…and in that time, I’ve found two things that always remain true to help dealer customers drive profitability – outstanding on-the-lot service and quality photography.  When we first started Xcite Automotive USA, 13 years ago, we knew just how complex capturing an impactful photo in a competitive landscape really was. It started our journey and has helped

Dealership Photography

COO Peter Harris and CSO Skip Dowd

Dealers are faced with the constant challenge of managing photographers and inventory software to properly and consistently merchandise their vehicles. At Xcite Automotive we specialize in all things vehicle photography on your lot. Watch this short video of COO Peter Harris and CSO Skip Dowd discussing the Xcite difference…

Dealership Photography

Create a Best-In-Class Online Showroom

In the dealer world, we know how essential it is to take consistent quality inventory photos. I’ve been in the automotive business my whole life…and in that time, I’ve found two things that always remain true to help dealer customers drive profitability – outstanding on-the-lot service and quality photography.  When we first started Xcite Automotive USA, 13 years ago, we knew just how complex capturing an impactful photo in a competitive landscape really was. It started our journey and has helped

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