This was a presentation given at the conference of the Association of Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) in Austin, Texas on October 31st, 2016. This is a predominantly academic event, and this presentation was a condensed version of our "MT Success Blog Series" on our website where we aimed to give the community and idea as to the practical considerations around commercial machine translation. http://iconictranslation.com/2016/07/8-steps-to-mt-success-series-introduction/